By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog It has been nearly two years since I reported on the dangers of creating a law enforcement run Mental Health Assessment (MHA) program. In Texas, police use MHA’s to “screen” every person they have arrested for mental illness. But the TAPS Act, first introduced in January 2019, would take […]
June 23, 2019 • ACLU,
CALIFORNIA,
CELL PHONE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
License Plate Readers,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
OREGON,
PRIVACY,
SAFETY,
Technology GeekWire posted last month that Portland, Oregon quietly launched a controversial mobile location data project with partner Sidewalk Labs (a subsidiary of Alphabet–which is the parent company of Google). In this year-long pilot program, the city has authorized that people, who have smartphones, will be tracked without their consent or knowledge. Portland is using software […]
June 16, 2019 • BLOOD WITHDRAWAL,
COLORADO,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
GEORGIA,
INDIANA,
LEGISLATION,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
TEXAS,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL,
TRAFFIC STOP,
Traffic Tickets,
WISCONSIN This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
In NMA E-Newsletter #541 published two weeks ago, we encouraged readers to participate in a short online survey about testing requirements for older drivers. The survey was designed to help us better understand how you feel about licensing standards for advanced-age drivers. Several hundred responses have been received─thank you!─which has made for some interesting reading. […]
By Chad Dornsife NMA Nevada Activist, Executive Director of Best Highway Safety Practices Institute Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of what Chad half-jokingly refers to as his manifesto, written nearly ten years ago from a federalist point of view. This installment details the development of traffic laws in the United States and the origins […]
