The state Board of Education is on solid ground in allowing public school officials to make sure that students’ lockers are not used as caches for weapons, illicit drugs or other contraband. Its decision to use dogs to sniff for drugs could be helpful as long as they don’t sniff students themselves in violation of…
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Mass. legislator: Revisit data security law
After months of outspoken complaints from business leaders who said Massachusetts data security laws were next to impossible to follow, one lawmaker wants to make compliance easier for the smallest and largest of businesses. A bill sponsored by Sen. Michael Morrissey, D-Quincy, would rewrite the law passed in 2007, essentially creating separate paths to compliance…
Locklear Electric files two new class actions over unsolicited faxes
A Wood River electric company has filed two new separate class action lawsuits against a chiropractor’s office and a real estate company, alleging the office and company sent unsolicited faxes to it, causing a waste of paper and employee time. Both complaints by Locklear Electric are nearly identical and were filed on the same day…
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sues TSA
The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers. Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by…