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Water & Power- The Mythology of Barrio Lyricism
OFF THE WIREby Carlos Aguilar Under the same searing California sun that washes over Los Angeles almost every day of the year, one can find extravagant wealth and the picture of the Hollywood...
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OFF THE WIRE By Rusty Bongard Have heard that someone was ticketed locally for failure to have proof of the insurance rider required to ride helmetless. The law clearly does NOT require the proof....
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Medical Marijuana Patients Claim Pot Shop Limits Increase Pollution
OFF THE WIREBy MATT REYNOLDS SAN DIEGO (CN) - Medical marijuana patients sued San Diego, claiming its restrictions on the number of pot shops in the city exacerbate pollution by increasing the...
View ArticleInvasion of Privacy
OFF THE WIRELet's say you accidentally leave a personal letter containing private information on a public park bench, and that letter is picked up and read by someone else. Even if the sharing of this...
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Nevada Knife Laws
OFF THE WIREOverview of NV Knife Law | Nevada Knife Case LawNevada Revised Statutes | City and County OrdinancesOverview of Nevada Knife LawsState LawGenerally speaking, Nevada law is silent on the...
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California State Knife Laws (2014 revision)
OFF THE WIREUnfortunately laws are always complicated and there can be multiple penal codes related to any given issue. On this page I've attempted to collect California State penal codes pertaining to...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Agencies All Over California Have Been Secretly Using...
OFF THE WIREfrom the fourth-amendment...-we-hardly-knew-ye deptMore documents have been uncovered (via FOI requests) that show local law enforcement agencies in California have been operating cell...
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USA - Supreme Court Ruling: Police Can Search Your Car Based Only on An...
OFF THE WIREIn an obvious affront to the 4th Amendment, a new ruling from the Supreme Court states that cops can pull you over and search your car based only on an anonymous tip – no other evidence is...
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Do Cops Need a Warrant to Track Down Your Cell Phone?
OFF THE WIREJacob Sullum reason.comA fraud case in Arizona raises the issue of whether police need a search warrant to use "stingrays," devices that enable them to locate people's mobile phones by...
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USA - Stingrays, Assume your cell phone is tapped.
OFF THE WIREagingrebel.comAssume your cell phone is tapped.There is growing concern over the use of devices called “Stingrays” by local, state and federal police departments to illegally wiretap all...
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View ArticleUSA - How ‘Stingray’ Devices Work
OFF THE WIREBy JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES Law enforcement and the military are using devices called “stingrays” to track cellphones, as described in a story in today’s Wall Street Journal. The...
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OFF THE WIRECan the government use your cell phone records to track your physical location without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause? Often with EFF input as a friend of the court, the...
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USA - 'Stingray' technology helps police catch criminals with cell phone data
OFF THE WIREWASHINGTON (AP) — Local authorities may be intercepting cell phone calls or text messages -- as part of an effort to find potential criminal suspects -- using a new technology tool known as...
View ArticleUSA - Freedom of Association in the Docket
OFF THE WIRE By Roger PilonShareI’ve got a piece just up at the Daily Caller, drawing on two brief stories earlier today that capture nicely the growing intolerance of the Left for people...
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USA - 'Stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
OFF THE WIREByJENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIESFor more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply "the Hacker." Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a...
View ArticleCA - Little-Known Surveillance Tool Called Stingray Raises Concerns by...
OFF THE WIREby Mary Frances PrevostLittle-Known Surveillance Tool Called Stingray Raises Concerns by Judges, Privacy Activists.By Ellen Nakashima, Published: March 27Federal investigators in Northern...
View ArticleUSA - Phone Tracker Tests Fourth Amendment
OFF THE WIREBy TOM LOFTUS CONNECT‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Spurs Fourth Amendment Debate: The Wall Street Journal has an exclusive on the tricky legal ramifications behind law enforcement’s use of a...
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