Religion & Law

Homeland Insecurity: Kentucky Battles Terrorism With A Plaque Honoring God
The commonwealth of Kentucky has an unusual approach to homeland security: God will provide. Under the terms of a 2006 law authorizing the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, the state is required to stress ?the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth...

God Hates Kentucky
As if we didn’t know that “homeland security” was a complete crock of shit, Kentucky State Rep, Tom Riner (a Democrat) hijacked the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security as a vehicle for promotion of superstition...

Kentucky Mandates Praise of the Almighty as Homeland Security Priority
People in Kentucky are just now hearing about one of the state’s priorities in fighting terrorism, as stated in the 2006 anti-terrorism law. The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security’s list of core duties includes “stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth...

Atheists sue Kentucky over Homeland Security Plaques citing God.
Dec. 2, 2008 - Edwin Kagin, a Boone County lawyer and the national legal director of American Atheists has filed a lawsuit for a atheists-rights group suing the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security because state law requires the agency to stress  a reliance on God and to install a plaque referencing a religious justification for [...

"Atheists sue to take God out of state's terrorism law"
"Atheists sue to take God out of state's terrorism law": Today's edition of The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader contains an article that begins, "An atheists-rights group is suing the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security because state law requires the agency to stress 'dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth...

Kentucky Law Requires Godtalk
The Lexington News reports on a profoundly silly amendment inserted into a bill in Kentucky that requires the state's Office of Homeland Security to mention God at every turn: Under state law, God is Kentucky's first line of defense against terrorism...

Rightwing Extremism
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.

Kentucky lawyers
fraud case ends in mistrial.

Two Kentucky Counties
settle strip search class action lawsuits

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits