Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases

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Secret law enforcement requests to conduct electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have surged in federal courts for Northern Virginia and the District, but only one in a thousand of the applications ever becomes public, newly released data show. The bare-bones release by the courts leaves unanswered how long, in what ways and for what crimes federal investigators tracked individuals' data and whether long-running investigations result in charges. In Northern Virginia, electronic surveillance requests increased 500 percent in the past five years, from 305 in 2011 to a pace set to pass 1,800 this year. Only one of the total 4,113 applications in those five years had been unsealed as of late July, according to information from the Alexandria division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which covers northern Virginia.
 

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The article on Washington Post was vague and doesn't clarify if the surveillance is warranted.

Aside. If authorities were gathering information on the rampant pedophilia in Nova, then my hats off to them like with the case of that Duke University professor pimping out his adopted son on pedophile rinks, one in the Northern Virginia area. Case broke my heart.

Warrant: Molesting of boy admitted | Pound Pup Legacy
 
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