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Protecting and serving in the digital age

In the 10 years since Facebook was created, the social networking site has become a thread in the fabric of 21st century culture. Everyone has a Facebook page: teens, college students, parents, grandparents. And police departments.

In a 2014 study, research group LexisNexis found that social media use among law enforcement agencies is on the rise and is predicted to continue rising. The survey reported that 25 percent of police departments in the United States use social media sites on a daily basis, up from 16 percent in 2012.

The reliance on the technology is expected to expand, with 78 percent of current users planning to use it even more in the coming year, the study stated.

Columbia Police Department Assistant Chief Michelle Jones said CPD has had an active Facebook account since 2013.

We were actually the first department of the city of Columbia who started using Facebook, said Jones, who manages the Facebook account. I finally got the okay after a year of pushing the idea. The holdup was really making sure we had good policies and procedures in place for things we would be posting and things we would not allow on our page.

CPD heavily uses its Facebook page to alert the community to crimes in the area or missing children, and to educate the public on how to be safe when trick-or-treating on Halloween or how to avoid falling victim to credit card scams.

It has been very beneficial to us, Jones said. We have solved so many crimes through Facebook where somebody would contact us and let us know, Hey, I saw this on your Facebook page, and I know who that is.

Jones said that about a year ago, she posted surveillance footage from a shoplifting incident on CPDs Facebook page, and was contacted almost immediately by someone who said they knew who the shoplifter was.

Someone posted his (the suspects) name under the comments, and I deleted it real quick and sent her a message saying, What number can you be reached at? Wed really like to contact you and get more information on this. The informant was very helpful and gave us everything we needed to know.

Facebook posts have also helped CPD to locate runaway juveniles and gain leads on robberies, Jones said.

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As chances of NSA reform fade, opinions remain strong

A total of 19 months after NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed details of the National Security Agencys massive surveillance program, the debate has simmered down and a legislative fix looks unlikely.

At the heart of Snowdens disclosures was that the NSA has access to meta-data of millions of phone calls and is also able to access emails, transcripts from online chats and troves of other data directly from internet companies.

While several bills have been introduced and even voted on in Congress, a legislative fix looks unlikely.

In July of 2013, the Amash-Conyers Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Michigan, and Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, would have effectively ended NSA collection of data, but narrowly failed the House of Representatives by a vote of 217-205. 211 votes were needed for the bill to pass that day.

More recently, the USA Freedom Act, which would have made some reforms passed the House by a vote of 303-121 in May. Amash sponsored the original bill, but voted against it because it was watered down after changes were made and in his opinion, did not go far enough in reforms. While it passed the House, it failed in the Senate in November, when it could not receive 60 votes to move forward.

One of the bills sponsor, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, blamed the failure on other Senators who were fear mongering, thus stalling debate on the bill.

The program has seen some challenges in court. Several district courts have heard the case against the program, one judge in the D.C. district court called the program likely unconstitutional and almost Orwellian, but other courts have issued opinions in favor of the program.

Dirk Deam, senior lecturer in political science at Iowa State, said the court challenges will likely not spur any changes, rather it is up to Congress.

Itll be up to Congress. At the root of this is application of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is an act of Congress, Deam said. Almost all the issues surrounding things that have been leaked are connected to FISA, so to the extent that people are going to react to that, theyre going to have to [make changes] through legislation.

Several students at Iowa State said they do not approve of the program.

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