Law & Disorder

Prisoner Lawsuit Against Transphobic Executive Order; Digital Security Concerns Under Trump; Bay Area Firefighting issues

On today’s show, we start by exploring electronic surveilland and privacy concerns under the new Trump presidency. We’ll be in conversation with India McKinney, the Director of Federal Affairs with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. 

Read the EFF’s memo to the federal government outlining technology and surveillance concerns: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sends-transition-memo-digital-policy-priorities-new-administration-and-congress

Then, a transgender prisoner has sued the Trump Administration over the constitutionality of one of his earliest executive orders that the lawsuit claims will put transgender prisoners at risk. We’ll speak with Shannon Minter, Legal Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and part of the legal team representing the plaintiff in Maria Moe v Donald Trump.

Read the Maria Moe v Donald Trump lawsuit: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpyqyxqbpg/01272025moe.pdf

Then, we explore Bay Area wildfire preparedness issues as our state reels from the devastating fires in Southern California, in conversation with Jovi Dai, a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times, who specializes in in-depth data analysis to uncover Bay Area issues. His latest report published in the East Bay Times is titled “San Jose, Oakland fire departments understaffed like L.A.”

Read Jovi Dai’s story from the East Bay Times: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/27/san-jose-oakland-fire-department-understaffed/

This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is journalist, advocate, DJ, hip hop historian, professor, historian and host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, Davey D.
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