3:35pm ET - Last week the ACLU in Southern California released a free smart-phone app that allows people to send
videos of their interactions with the police directly to the ACLU, who will
then preserve the video footage, even if the cops seize and destroy the phone
or delete the video. The app which is called “Mobile Justice CA,” works for
both iPhones and Android users and is available at Apple’s App Store and at
Google Play. Joining me today to discuss
the app and why it is more important today than ever before is Peter Bibring, a senior staff attorney
and the director of police practices at the ACLU of Southern California where
the app was developed. You can also follow Peter on twitter.
5:05pm ET - Back in 2009,
then-Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana voted with nearly every other member of
his party to keep in place a two decade long ban on federal funding for
needle-exchange programs, believing that giving those people suffering from
drug addiction access to a clean supply of syringes only encouraged more
illegal drug use. However, today that
vote is coming back to haunt him as the Hoosier State is now confronting an
outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C infections in rural Scott County which forced
now Gov. Pence to sign an emergency order to implement a temporary
needle-exchange program there. Joining
us today to talk all about how the reality of this public-health crisis is
intruding on the conservative ideology of the politicians running the states
government is Russell Berman a
senior associate editor at The Atlantic. You can also follow Russell on twitter.
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