Lynn University Criminal Justice Program

AI-driven facial recognition software made a poor match for a bank fraud in North Dakota and prompted the arrest at gunpoint by Marshals in Tennessee. The grandmother involved was extradited after months, she was denied the ability to pay her bills, have her dentures, or access to her medications while held in custody - before the case was dismissed. She seeks $10M for wrongful arrest, detention, and loss of her home, car, and dog.

Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...

We are thrilled to announce that Rebecca Pacheco, Class of 2023 at Lynn University, passed the Florida Bar on her first attempt and was sworn in as a Miami-Dade County Public Defender this morning.

Waymo autonomous cab identifies a semi-automatic rifle in the hands of a passenger and reports it to police - resulting in a stop and arrest for possession of a ghost gun, mace, and ma*****na. Both are juveniles, but they never thought the cabbie would rat them out.

Waymo robotaxi calls cops on riders handling loaded AR-style ghost gun — Waymo alerted San Francisco police, then juvenile riders were stopped and arrested Police that intercepted the car also found 'suspected ma*****na and mace spray.'

Never underestimate your role as an intern. It was an intern who discovered that a respected forensic scientist with decades of experience at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was dumping DNA samples and tanking cases. For this, the scientist was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Former Colorado crime analyst gets 10-year prison sentence for manipulating DNA data A judge has sentenced a former forensic analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to 10 years in prison after prosecutors said she manipulated and omitted data to speed up her work.

A lack of resources will always hamper an investigation. In this case, the lack of resources looks deliberate. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has never made a significant dent in the number of crimes and missing person cases under its jurisdiction.

Staffing problems stall federal investigations of missing and killed Native people An audit report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Missing and Murdered Unit released this month reveals staffing challenges, a backlog of hundreds of case referrals and families left without required victims' services.

Clarity on something most counsel thought was clear - strip searches performed with the benefit of a warrant are not allowed outside of a jail or prison (where the rules are different).

3rd Circ. Says Most Strip Searches Require Warrants - Law360 A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday ruled that police cannot conduct warrantless strip searches outside of jails or prisons absent consent or an emergency, but found that Pennsylvania officers who unconstitutionally searched a man enjoy qualified immunity from his civil rights claims because the limi...

A new level of incompetence and mendacity in AI use by attorneys - this one in a brief to appeal a murder conviction. The brief contains fabricated witnesses and testimony.

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.

The ongoing overlap between cybercrime and warfare sees an oil tanker hacked with all operational control compromised - potentially disabling or weaponizing the ship. A specialized Coast Guard law enforcement team, including cyber protection members, boarded the ship at sea to resolve the issues.

Coast Guard, FBI boarded Texas-bound oil tanker after ship's network was potentially breached The U.S. has so far not attributed the potential breach to a specific actor, but Iranian state media amplified the story in the weeks following the attack.

Love your automated home appliance? Your robot vacuum is watching, listening, and video recording you in your home. The data these "smart" devices collect is showing up in divorce cases and criminal prosecutions.

Your robotic vacuum is a witness: What home robots mean for evidence, privacy and the law Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.

The irony - police officers complaining that their internal affairs investigators are using Flock cameras to track officers under investigation.

Flock camera use by internal affairs unit puts DC police at odds with officers’ union Washington, D.C.'s police department has used information from Flock cameras for misconduct investigations, prompting a formal complaint from its officers' union.