August 25, 2010 – U.S. law enforcement agencies are among the customers of a Massachusetts-based company that is selling full-body scanners to be mounted inside vans and used on streets, says a report from Forbes.

American Science & Engineering, based in Billerica, Massachusetts, told Forbes blogger Andy Greenberg that it has sold more than 500 "Z Backscatter Vans," mobile x-ray scanning units that can be used to detect bombs, contraband and smuggled people inside nearby cars.

PHOENIX, Arizona - August 25, 2010 - An Arizona man fighting to keep a historical American flag flying outside his home vows he will not take it down unless ordered to do so by a judge.

Andy McDonel of Leveen, Arizona, says he received a letter on August 6 from his homeowner’s association, Avalon Village Community Association, instructing him to "remove debris" from his suburban Phoenix home within 10 days or face a $25 fine.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 24, 2010 - As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

NEW YORK - August 23, 2010 - Earlier this year, Officer Adrian Schoolcraft of Brooklyn's 81st Precinct made headlines when he accused commanding officers of massively under-reporting crime stats.

Now, Schoolcraft is suing the NYPD for $50 million for trying to discredit and silence him by throwing him in a psych ward unwillingly, and subsequently suspending him for going "AWOL."