Lori Hoetger
@profloriann.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @ UNL Law, JD/PhD in psych. I like crim law/pro, law & psych, and legal decision-making. Mom of 3, PD in my heart.
This Nebraska volleyball team is unreal levels of good. Just so much fun to watch.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This Nebraska volleyball team is unreal levels of good. Just so much fun to watch.
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🚨New article alert! Aaaand it’s a timely one!
We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations.
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D...
Or read the explainer 🧵 below...
We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations.
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D...
Or read the explainer 🧵 below...
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨New article alert! Aaaand it’s a timely one!
We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations.
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D...
Or read the explainer 🧵 below...
We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations.
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D...
Or read the explainer 🧵 below...
Now do one that shows the ACTUAL change in crime rates too!
I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Now do one that shows the ACTUAL change in crime rates too!
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NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
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New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
Happy Constitution Day! Let's celebrate while we still have one
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Happy Constitution Day! Let's celebrate while we still have one
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New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
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Great piece. It’s not just NYPD.
Your Data Will Be Used Against You
They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Your Data Will Be Used Against You
They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance
New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Great piece. It’s not just NYPD.
Your Data Will Be Used Against You
They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Your Data Will Be Used Against You
They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Welp I know what quote I'll be putting on the screen when we talk about the role of race in Terry stops
Only Justice Kavanaugh even bothers to write anything to justify this horrifying action.
And it is not in any way reassuring.
And it is not in any way reassuring.
![Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 884-885 (listing "[a]ny number of factors" that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifgfmq7p7tyrinjm5duehmap4bn63brcma57itj7bvm34m3rsup4q@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Welp I know what quote I'll be putting on the screen when we talk about the role of race in Terry stops
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If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!
More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!
More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation
September 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!
More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!
More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation
It's Carpenter day in Crim Pro!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
September 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's Carpenter day in Crim Pro!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
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SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...
CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide
Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.
www.404media.co
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...
Just a reminder we're currently open for registration! Stipends still available!
Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...
Big Ten Early Career Scholars Workshop | College of Law | Nebraska
This collaborative workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to present works-in-progress at any stage of development and receive valuable feedback from peers and mentors within the Big Te...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just a reminder we're currently open for registration! Stipends still available!
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"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
unreal quote 😭
unreal quote 😭
Jeanine Pirro seems to have pissed off this judge
"We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" [Judge Faruqui] said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court."
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
"We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" [Judge Faruqui] said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court."
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
www.npr.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
unreal quote 😭
unreal quote 😭
Anyone care to guess how long my family lasted into the school year before someone got sick?
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Anyone care to guess how long my family lasted into the school year before someone got sick?
Middle kid starts kindergarten soon so I promised him & my oldest I'd hang out with them all week & do all the fun things we didn't have time for this summer. I have a whole list of class prep, edits, cites etc I need to do, but I have a feeling I'm not going to regret this. Thankful I can do this!
August 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Middle kid starts kindergarten soon so I promised him & my oldest I'd hang out with them all week & do all the fun things we didn't have time for this summer. I have a whole list of class prep, edits, cites etc I need to do, but I have a feeling I'm not going to regret this. Thankful I can do this!
Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...
Big Ten Early Career Scholars Workshop | College of Law | Nebraska
This collaborative workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to present works-in-progress at any stage of development and receive valuable feedback from peers and mentors within the Big Te...
law.unl.edu
July 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...
This... will not end well
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
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July 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This... will not end well
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I've been interested in expectations of privacy for awhile, so the dialogue around the whole Coldplay KissCam thing is wild to me. I'm trying to imagine a criminal defendant arguing a reasonable expectation of privacy in what they did at a concert with thousands of people
apnews.com/article/cold...
apnews.com/article/cold...
Can you ever expect privacy in public? Coldplay kiss camera saga tells us a lot about the answer
When the KissCam at a Coldplay concert last week landed on a couple who suspiciously escaped their embrace and tried (but failed) to duck out of the spotlight, the internet immediately got to work.
apnews.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I've been interested in expectations of privacy for awhile, so the dialogue around the whole Coldplay KissCam thing is wild to me. I'm trying to imagine a criminal defendant arguing a reasonable expectation of privacy in what they did at a concert with thousands of people
apnews.com/article/cold...
apnews.com/article/cold...
While boarding my flight, and Gen-Zer called me "queen." This is good, yes?
July 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
While boarding my flight, and Gen-Zer called me "queen." This is good, yes?
Yiiiiiikes
Another bit that jumped out at me, from Thomas: "There are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as
recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area
have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance."
recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area
have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance."
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yiiiiiikes