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July 24, 2025

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Trump signed EO 14321 directing DOJ to dismantle ADA Olmstead protections and expand forced civil commitment of homeless people with disabilities

On July 24, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14321, directing the Attorney General to seek reversal of federal and state judicial precedents — including Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) consent decrees — and expand civil commitment of homeless people with mental illness or substance use disorders. The order terminates federal support for housing-first programs and conditions discretionary grants on states enforcing bans on urban camping, loitering, and squatting.

Kansas City transit authority signed secret contract authorizing facial-recognition profiling of bus riders

On July 24, 2025, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) signed a three-year, auto-renewing contract with SafeSpace Global, a penny-stock company carrying a $23.7 million accumulated deficit and a going-concern warning, authorizing AI cameras that would generate facial-recognition profiles of bus riders, capture their video and audio, and use the resulting data to train the company's algorithms. The contract barred both parties from public disclosure and KCATA had no policy governing the biometric data; the signed agreement remained outside the public record for a year, until The Kansas City Defender obtained it through a records request.