{"id":42370,"date":"2014-06-05T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/i-fought-the-law-and-another-level-of-law-won.html"},"modified":"2014-06-06T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T01:16:39","slug":"i-fought-the-law-and-another-level-of-law-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/i-fought-the-law-and-another-level-of-law-won.html","title":{"rendered":"I fought the law, and another level of law won"},"content":{"rendered":"
The more state and local law enforcement become entangled with federal law enforcement (or the other way around), the more they can provide cover for each other, and the \u00a0more they become a de facto<\/i> federal law agency insofar as (lack of) accountability goes. That doesn't strike me as a positive thing, and I think it would give most folks of mainstream political stripes pause.<\/p>\n

(As a side note, though it's only mentioned in passing: in my opinion, NDAs by public agencies with private vendors should not<\/i> trump FOIA laws. That's anti-democratic and, again, can be used by the government to avoid accountability.)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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US Marshals step in, thwart efforts to learn about cell tracking devices<\/a>
\n After an ordinary stingray records request, the feds drive the files 320 miles.\n <\/p>\n

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The more state and local law enforcement become entangled with federal law enforcement (or the other way around), the more they can provide cover for each other, and the \u00a0more they become a de facto federal law agency insofar as (lack of) accountability goes. That doesn't strike me as a positive thing, and I think … Continue reading “I fought the law, and another level of law won”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,132],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-privacy","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50164,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/the-accountability-of-law-enforcement-or-lack-thereof.html","url_meta":{"origin":42370,"position":0},"title":"The Accountability of Law Enforcement (or lack thereof)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Apr-15 4:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I would feel more comfortable with individual cops not paying the price (or liability insurance) for this sort of thing if there was some institutional responsibility that picked up the slack. 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