December 17, 2017 • BAC,
BLOOD WITHDRAWAL,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
ILLINOIS,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
OREGON,
SOUTH DAKOTA,
UTAH By guest writer Joe Cadillic, from the MassPrivatal Blog Police state America has found a disturbing new way to forcibly take motorists blood without a warrant. Law enforcement is using private hospitals to do their dirty work. Earlier this year, I reported that police in Oregon were forcing hospitals to take motorists blood without a warrant. I […]
December 10, 2017 • CALIFORNIA,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION By Gary Biller, NMA President I get annoyed by the overuse of certain clichéd buzzwords and catch phrases in our area of advocacy, terms like “big brother,” “nanny state,” and “taxation by citation” for instance. That isn’t to say that they don’t sneak into the NMA vernacular from time to time. In fact, I used […]
Generally the time when most of us encounter the police is during a traffic stop, which can be one of the most stressful times for both the motorist and an officer in blue. In recent years, law enforcement has been under fire due to escalation during traffic stops and other public encounters. Many cities across […]
May 7, 2017 • CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
ILLINOIS,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
RADAR DETECTOR,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
Technology,
TENNESSEE,
TEXTING,
TICKET REVENUE,
VIRGINIA Part 1 dealt with how distracted driving enforcement campaigns, fueled by federal highway money, are also dragnets for other offenses. Part 2 examines new law enforcement tools to check on texting while driving. Currently, law enforcement has great difficulty in determining if a driver was using electronic devices before a crash (and more importantly whether […]
April 23, 2017 • BLACK BOX,
CELL PHONE,
DUI,
EDR,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
PRIVACY,
SAFETY,
Technology Earlier this month, the Florida Appeals Court in a 2-1 decision found in the 2013 Palm Beach County DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide case involving Charles Worsham Jr that the Fourth Amendment affords an expectation of privacy for vehicle electronic data recorders (EDRs), aka black boxes. Similar to an airplane black box, a vehicle’s EDR […]
