As tech products play an increasingly integral role in all of our lives, they’re generating a trove of personal data that ...

Abigail Spanberger blocked a bill to bar prosecutors from pressuring Virginians to waive protections against unreasonable ...

Pascal is a staff writer for Bolts. He previously worked for Block Club Chicago covering policing and courts, and the city’s west side neighborhoods.

Each of Oregon's 15 DA elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies ...

Chris Taylor’s win on Tuesday expands liberals’ majority on Wisconsin’s high court and locks it in through the next ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to automatically sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility for parole for a killing they didn’t participate ...

At a recent online webinar for Local Progress, a coalition organization for local elected officials, council members from around the country were instructed to, among other things, think about public ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday signed legislation banning local law enforcement agencies from partnering with federal immigration authorities, making it the 10th state to adopt laws ...

Virginia is poised to impose new conditions on local ICE partnerships, which the Trump administration seems likely to reject. That would effectively trigger a ban on sheriffs and police departments in ...