USPS OIG Report: Postal Inspection Service’s Inventory Controls Over Law Enforcement Surveillance Equipment

Posted on February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 by 21cpw

Background The mission of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is to support and protect the U.S. Postal Service and its employees, infrastructure, and customers. Postal inspectors are law enforcement agents who are assigned accountable property, such as surveillance equipment, for investigative purposes. Surveillance equipment is an electronic or mechanical device used to capture communications, visual…

APWU Notification on the Installation of Webcams and Facility Expansions

Posted on October 12, 2022 by 21cpw

From: Lamont Brooks <lbrooks@apwu.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 2:57 PM Subject: FW: Webcams in the Detroit District Area 8 facilities- APWU Notification on the Installation of Webcams and Facility Expansions This is for guidance purposes in the event the subject matter is brought to you from a local inquiry. The Postal Service has already…

EFF Sues USPS For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program

Posted on July 28, 2021July 29, 2021 by 21cpw

EFF Press Release – July 27, 2021 Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records about a covert program to secretly comb through online posts of social media users before street protests, raising concerns about chilling the privacy…

Next Time You Want to Conduct FMLA Surveillance, Be Sure to Have a Good Reason Why

Posted on March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 by 21cpw

Franczek Radelet P.C. – March 1, 2018 Porn and the FMLA. This has all the makings of one big, fat men’s soap opera. Johnnie Walker was a longtime police officer with the Pocatello Police Department, and he was tasked with investigating Scott and several other members of the police department’s administrative team because these jokers…

Postal Service Agents Will Trawl Facebook, Dating Sites to Root Out Fraud

Posted on April 12, 2016May 21, 2018 by 21cpw

By Aliya Sternstein – April 11, 2016 A dishonest Postal Service employee, citing a bad back, says she can’t lift a thing, files for workers’ compensation, collects a paycheck and stays home from work. A simple visit to her Facebook page, however, shows the purportedly injured employee lifting weights at a bodybuilding competition. That hypothetical situation…