PRM’s blog features an overview of the last five years worth of raditation monitoring reports compiled by the Minnesota Department of Health. This monitoring is conducted on an ongoing basis near the Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear plants, as well as at other locations.

The median values for Strontium-90 were well within recommended safe levels …

PRM has requested opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel that provide the legal basis for a recent UAV drone attack in Yemen that killed an American-born radical cleric. The incident has received extensive news coverage, due to the fact that the Department of Justice has kept any OLC memos related to the incident secret.

A recent New York times article by Charlie Savage describes the purported contents of the memo, along with the novel legal issues raised by the UAV strike.

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act …

PRM has received a number of documents pertaining to the implementation of license plate recognition (LPR) technology by the police department of Saint Paul, Minnesota. We have also posted reports from 2005-2010 relating to radiation sampling by the Minnesota Department of Health. Watch our blog for summaries and analysis of this material.

Monitoring for radioactivity began in Minnesota in 1953 in response to nuclear weapons testing …

PRM has posted new government documents that it has received through several public records requests, as well a collection of older documents that were obtained for article and documentary research. See our blog for a synopsis of this material.

Mr. Armitage’s bio per your request …

September 17th is Constitution Day – an annual event intended to focus public attention on the history, structure, and values of the U.S. Constitution. During the month of September, PRM is hosting a public event that centers on the civil liberties guarantees found in the document’s Bill of Rights. Find more information – including downloadable content – here.

Belief is key. In any society, rights only exist to the extent that they’re respected and enforced by others …

PRM’s blog recently featured a look at issues involving NORTHCOM’s new training regimen for “dual-status” military commanders. This type of training has come on-line in the years since the U.S. military’s response to Hurrican Katrina.

The drive to create “dual-status commanders” seems to have arisen in traditional military fashion …