Statewide efforts to legalize marijuana in Ohio failed at the ballot box last year, but several cities pressed ahead, voting to decriminalize cannabis within their city limits. This takes a solid first step toward effectively nullifying prohibition in practice. Voters in the Ohio cities of Bellaire, Logan, Newark and Roseville all approved marijuana decriminalization measures…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Dec. 9, 2016) – Yesterday, the Ohio legislature gave final approval to a bill that would reform asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking property without criminal charges in many cases. The legislation also takes on federal forfeiture programs by banning prosecutors from circumventing state laws by passing cases off to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Dec. 9, 2016) – A bill prefiled in the Missouri Senate for the 2017 session would ban the use of “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications without a warrant in most situations. The proposed law would not only protect privacy in the Show Me State, but…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 8, 2016) – The Cambridge city council will consider an ordinance that would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state. Late last month, the council adopted a policy order that would require the police…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Dec. 7, 2016) – During the 2017 session, the Missouri legislature will consider a bill that would put limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by law enforcement agencies using Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) in the state, and place significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states…
A new technology at least in part funded by the federal government has made it even quicker and easier for cops to grab money via asset forfeiture. The device is called ERAD, short for Electronic Recovery and Access to Data, and it has already been deployed in Oklahoma. ERAD is made possible through a combination…
”The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.” Franklin Pierce A Federal judge has ruled that the recount MUST begin Monday, “a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday.” Despite NO evidence of voter fraud …
”The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.” Franklin Pierce A Federal judge has ruled that the recount MUST begin Monday, “a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday.” Despite NO evidence of voter fraud …
AUSTIN, Texas. (Dec. 1, 2016) – Four bills filed for the 2017 legislative session would relax restrictions on marijuana in Texas. Passage of any of these bills would take another step toward effectively nullifying federal prohibition in practice. House Bill 82 (HB82) and House Bill 130 (HB130) will be introduced by Rep. Harold Dutton (D-Houston).…
In Texas, legislators have already filed several bills for the 2017 legislative session that would effectively nullify some federal actions. Unsurprisingly, a federal supremacist journalist doesn’t like that, so he trotted out the tired old racism trope. To his credit, in his article headlined Texas’ anti-federal bills echo defiance of the Jim Crow South, threaten…