ONE OF THEIR OWN

People told Rebecca Brown to let it go She wouldn’t Her husband, Kevin, had killed himself, fearful he was about to be arrested in connection with the 1984 murder of a14-year-old girl at Torrey Pines State Beach

She believed he was innocent. But she also wondered what evidence San Diego police cold-case detectives had gathered during their investigation. When they made public a search-warrant affidavit that outlined their findings she got a copy and read it.

What she saw was half-truths and misrepresentations. Gossip andsupposition “There must be something more,” she remembered saying to herself. “Please God, don’t tell me they killed my husband for nothing.”

It made her angry, angry enough to push aside suggestions from relatives and friends to move on and take care of herself now. “God put a brain in my head for a reason, so I could use it, she said “Just let it go? I don’t think so.”

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García, director of R3D a digital rights nonprofit in Mexico that has been investigating statesponsored surveillance for years.

“You don’t know for sure (if you are being tracked) and you don’t know how to prevent it.”

The government build-up and exploitation of surveillance technology in Mexico has been largely documented through unofficial means, including independent investigations, information leaks and personal anecdotes. This past week, many of those

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The woman, who The San Diego Union-Tribune is identifying by her middle name, Lynn, to protect her privacy first tried to get her named removed from the index through an administrative process overseen by county employees.

After social workers declined to reverse their decision, Lynn filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court asking a judge to order officials to remove her from the state’s

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