There was a court decision in Colorado recently that I didn’t cover on this site because the decision supposedly wouldn’t have much impact going forward in light of a new law that had gone into effect. The case involved a man who used his own name, address, and details to apply for a loan,…
Category: U.S.
Michael Roberts, Express Jet Pilot, For President in 2012
Bob Barr writes: For the past year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its parent, the Department of Homeland Security, along with Members of Congress from both parties and the Obama Administration, have been demanding Americans give up our basic civil liberties and our fundamental right to privacy, by submitting to a full-body scan —…
DHS Privacy Office ordered TSA not to answer our FOIA request
Records posted online by the DHS in response to one of our FOIA requests confirm that, as we suspected, DHS headquarters has been illegally blocking release of documents we have requested, and to which we are entitled, under the Freedom of Information Act, in order to subject them to higher-level political review and an illegal requirement for higher-level political approval…
Refuse breath test? Not in Lafourche
Raymond Legendre reports: Lafourche has become the second Louisiana parish to enforce a DWI “no-refusal” policy at all times. Sheriff Craig Webre announced the action Tuesday. The Sheriff’s Office experimented with the program three times this year in its ongoing effort to reduce drunk-driving deaths and remove drunk drivers from the parish’s roadways. Starting yesterday,…