A bill requiring North Carolina law enforcement agencies to collect DNA samples from people arrested for certain felonies would turn a basic principle of criminal justice on its head. That’s the conclusion the John Locke Foundation’s legal expert reaches in urging state lawmakers to reject House Bill 1403. “The fundamental tenet of our criminal justice…
Category: Laws
Italian bill to limit wiretaps draws fire
I’ve occasionally posted news reports out of Italy on the debate there over revising their wiretapping laws. In what might strike Americans as odd, the government is trying to restrict wiretapping, while other groups are fighting the proposal. A report in today’s BBC indicates that Italy leads European countries on wiretaps: The ministry of justice…
It: Berlusconi Says Agreement Reached on Restricting Wiretaps, Leaks
Steve Scherer reports: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that his coalition today reached an agreement to restrict wiretapping and impose fines on newspapers and television channels that leak information on criminal probes. “We’re blocking press leaks by imposing heavy sanctions,” Berlusconi told members of Italy’s main hotel lobby today in Rome. The law will…
Massachusetts casino bills avoid wiretapping laws
Steve LeBlanc of the Associated Press reports: Massachusetts lawmakers have failed to back a key recommendation from Attorney General Martha Coakley to toughen the state’s wiretapping laws as they push ahead with plans to license multiple casinos. […] When Coakley unveiled her bill last year, she said the state’s wiretapping law needed to be revamped…