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Title: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: mightyace on September 16, 2009, 08:56:12 PM
From The Seattle Times website via http://www.drudgereport.com/ (http://www.drudgereport.com/)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_medina16m.html (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_medina16m.html)
Title: Re: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: Alps on September 16, 2009, 10:20:59 PM
Sickening.


QuoteMedina City Councilmember Lucius Biglow said crime prevention "outweighs concern over privacy."

A 2005 city survey showed that nearly a half of Medina's residents agreed with the camera installation.

So... the reason the cameras were installed is that the U.S. Constitution was blatantly violated?  And with more than half of the residents of the town NOT supporting it?  Think I'll be staying out of that overpriced, underintelligent locale.
Title: Re: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: vdeane on September 17, 2009, 05:26:45 PM
Roads are a public place, so nobody should have expectation of privacy.  Regardless, the government has declared that anything within 100 miles of the coast or an international border to be a Constitution-free zone.  It's unconstitutional to have a Constitution-free zone, but it's being done anyways.
Title: Re: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: corco on September 17, 2009, 05:35:59 PM
I'm tempted to commit a crime there just so I can challenge that law
Title: Re: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: Alps on September 17, 2009, 08:50:29 PM
Quote from: corco on September 17, 2009, 05:35:59 PM
I'm tempted to commit a crime there just so I can challenge that law
Use your one phone call to report back to one of us.
Title: Re: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: corco on September 17, 2009, 08:59:32 PM
Only if you'll post my bail
Title: Re: Cameras keep track of all cars entering Medina
Post by: Bickendan on September 27, 2009, 03:23:53 AM
Better be a petty crime. Like changing lanes without signalling...