Diego Alcalá Laboy
@diegoalcalapr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law, Afro-Latino, abolicionista, Puerto Rico será libre, teaching criminal law and criminal procedure while researching surveillance, law, technology, and decoloniality. Creando un mejor mundo con @amartinez-orabona.
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New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...
A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles
Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency t...
www.404media.co
August 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...
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The Trump administration’s attacks on Head Start are an attack on working and immigrant families.
We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.
We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.
July 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Trump administration’s attacks on Head Start are an attack on working and immigrant families.
We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.
We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.
Humbled to see my work published. Thanks to members of the Editorial Board of the Seattle University Law Review Online for their incredible assistance in making this article better. Pa' Lante.
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/
Towards a Critical Legal Tech Education: A Decolonial Approach
The intersection of law, technology, and decolonial theory offers a critical framework for exposing and challenging power asymmetries embedded in both legal and technological systems. Drawing from his...
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu
June 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Humbled to see my work published. Thanks to members of the Editorial Board of the Seattle University Law Review Online for their incredible assistance in making this article better. Pa' Lante.
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/
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The charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight.
This professor, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, along with some of her colleagues and students, are still facing charges for protesting Israel's genocide of Palestinians at UC Irvine.
June 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight.
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“In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans’ sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections.”
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.
theintercept.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans’ sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections.”
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58% of women in prison are mothers to minor children. Of those women, most are single mothers.
Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth.
Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.
Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth.
Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.
May 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
58% of women in prison are mothers to minor children. Of those women, most are single mothers.
Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth.
Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.
Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth.
Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.
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They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
April 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
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State department official filed affidavit to comply with Judge Xinis’ order for daily updates on Abrego García. Says he is alive at CECOT and being “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” which is something that the plaintiffs will certainly dispute
storage.courtlistener.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
State department official filed affidavit to comply with Judge Xinis’ order for daily updates on Abrego García. Says he is alive at CECOT and being “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” which is something that the plaintiffs will certainly dispute
Thanks Delaware Law for inviting me to speak at your Dignity Law conference. Incredible event.
April 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Thanks Delaware Law for inviting me to speak at your Dignity Law conference. Incredible event.
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New from 404 Media: we've seen an ICE database that filters people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Experts say possibly helping ICE identify and deport people. Scars, location data, immigration status, eye color, much more. Created by Palantir
www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
April 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New from 404 Media: we've seen an ICE database that filters people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Experts say possibly helping ICE identify and deport people. Scars, location data, immigration status, eye color, much more. Created by Palantir
www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
Spend my afternoon talking about citizenship, using Captain Picard, Walter Rodney, Marx, WB Dubois, Dussell, Bosch and el rockero Meléndez-Badillo in our panel hosted by The Bell Collective at Albany Law. Pa’Lante.
April 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Spend my afternoon talking about citizenship, using Captain Picard, Walter Rodney, Marx, WB Dubois, Dussell, Bosch and el rockero Meléndez-Badillo in our panel hosted by The Bell Collective at Albany Law. Pa’Lante.
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Check out my new Nature article. I call for avoiding distractions like false solutions to climate change, following environmental justice and Jemez Principles, strengthening EJ-labor collaboration, & redistributing organizing resources away from the big greens & into the hands of grassroots groups.
April 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Check out my new Nature article. I call for avoiding distractions like false solutions to climate change, following environmental justice and Jemez Principles, strengthening EJ-labor collaboration, & redistributing organizing resources away from the big greens & into the hands of grassroots groups.
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“‘Que vergonha!’, disse a funcionária da Microsoft Ibtihal Aboussad, dirigindo-se diretamente ao CEO de IA, Mustafa Suleyman. ‘Você é um mercador da guerra. Pare de usar a IA para genocídio. Você tem sangue nas mãos. Como vocês têm a audácia de celebrar enquanto a Microsoft está matando crianças.’”
April 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“‘Que vergonha!’, disse a funcionária da Microsoft Ibtihal Aboussad, dirigindo-se diretamente ao CEO de IA, Mustafa Suleyman. ‘Você é um mercador da guerra. Pare de usar a IA para genocídio. Você tem sangue nas mãos. Como vocês têm a audácia de celebrar enquanto a Microsoft está matando crianças.’”
Debí tirar más foto de cuando te tuve, debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que puede. Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden. Y si hoy me emborracho, pa’ que me ayuden. Toy bien loco, toy bien loco.
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Debí tirar más foto de cuando te tuve, debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que puede. Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden. Y si hoy me emborracho, pa’ que me ayuden. Toy bien loco, toy bien loco.
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#publicdefender friends, I'm looking to diversify my pool of potential expert witnesses. Can anyone recommend any of the following who work for defense?
- SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients
- Forensic or ER nurses
- Forensic pathologists
- Toxicologists
- SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients
- Forensic or ER nurses
- Forensic pathologists
- Toxicologists
April 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#publicdefender friends, I'm looking to diversify my pool of potential expert witnesses. Can anyone recommend any of the following who work for defense?
- SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients
- Forensic or ER nurses
- Forensic pathologists
- Toxicologists
- SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients
- Forensic or ER nurses
- Forensic pathologists
- Toxicologists
Orgulloso por compartir el borrador de mi artículo, Puerto Ricopticon: las nuevas tecnologías de vigilancia en Puerto Rico y su inconstitucionalidad. Cualquier comentario es bienvenido.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Puerto Ricopticon: Las Nuevas Tecnologías de Vigilancias en Puerto Rico y su inconstitucionalidad
<p><span>En marzo de 2024, el Secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Pública le ofreció a la prensa un tour de las nuevas oficinas del Centro Regional de Inte
papers.ssrn.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Orgulloso por compartir el borrador de mi artículo, Puerto Ricopticon: las nuevas tecnologías de vigilancia en Puerto Rico y su inconstitucionalidad. Cualquier comentario es bienvenido.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE
March 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE
Some time ago, a student told me that when she told her mom that her law professor in the U.S. was from Puerto Rico, and that he spoke Spanish, she started to cry. She couldn’t believe that her daughter would find someone in this space she could relate to. That was a very special conversation.
March 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Some time ago, a student told me that when she told her mom that her law professor in the U.S. was from Puerto Rico, and that he spoke Spanish, she started to cry. She couldn’t believe that her daughter would find someone in this space she could relate to. That was a very special conversation.
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Excellent coverage of forthcoming research from Prof. @jennoliva.bsky.social, who has examined the use of AI algorithms to determine patient coverage.
Algorithms Deny Humans Health Care | The Regulatory Review
Scholar argues that FDA has the authority to regulate coverage algorithms used by health care insurers.
www.theregreview.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Excellent coverage of forthcoming research from Prof. @jennoliva.bsky.social, who has examined the use of AI algorithms to determine patient coverage.
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Newsletter:
Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF.
A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case
heavyweather.media/weather-repo...
Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF.
A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case
heavyweather.media/weather-repo...
Weather Report #4: The Taxman Works for the ATF and Puerto Rico Municipalities Climate RICO Update
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March 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Newsletter:
Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF.
A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case
heavyweather.media/weather-repo...
Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF.
A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case
heavyweather.media/weather-repo...
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Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”
The airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained
One lawyer called it a ‘feedback loop’ of surveillance.
www.theverge.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”
My paper Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all, co-authored with Dr. Michael Chou from Providence College, has found a home at The Ohio State Technology Law Journal, Vol. 22. If you have any comments, feel free to reach out. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all
Since the 1960s, the American criminal justice system has grown exponentially. Much of this growth has been the result of so-called "tough-on-crime" a
papers.ssrn.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My paper Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all, co-authored with Dr. Michael Chou from Providence College, has found a home at The Ohio State Technology Law Journal, Vol. 22. If you have any comments, feel free to reach out. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Excited to present my paper: The Founder's Gaze, How the 4th Amendment is a surveillance technology that enables AI to scale control over the subaltern next Friday @ St. John's Center for Race and Law. Register here to attend this conference vitrtually. Thanks. www.stjohns.edu/law/academic...
Center for Race and Law
Understanding American law requires an understanding of the impact of race. Established in 2022 under the leadership of St. John's Law Professor Renee Nicole Allen, the Center for Race and Law provide...
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March 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Excited to present my paper: The Founder's Gaze, How the 4th Amendment is a surveillance technology that enables AI to scale control over the subaltern next Friday @ St. John's Center for Race and Law. Register here to attend this conference vitrtually. Thanks. www.stjohns.edu/law/academic...