{"id":36374,"date":"2013-05-17T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36374"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:21:40","slug":"a-state-without-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36374","title":{"rendered":"A State Without Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>This one&#8217;s important, and needs some action on your part to prevent a corrosive overreach of government power.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I also got this one from GOCRA yesterday; it&#8217;s not a &#8220;gun rights&#8221; thing, but it&#8217;s an important civil liberty issue, and it needs your attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Minneapolis Police (as well as many other departments) use automated license plate readers to log millions of times, dates, and locations of cars every month. They know where you were, and they keep this data as long as they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A proposed law, House File 474 (and Senate companion SF385), would force police departments to immediately delete data on non-suspect cars (like yours).<\/p>\n<p>This bill is scheduled for a vote <em>[today]<\/em> in the House. If you think that the police shouldn&#8217;t track the every move of innocent citizens, ask your state senator representative to support HF474\/SF385.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please get on the horn and contact your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.mn\/members\/\">Senator<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.leg.state.mn.us\/members\/housemembers.asp\">Representative<\/a>, and ask them &#8211; politely &#8211; to vote &#8220;Yes&#8221; on SF 385 and HF 474.<\/p>\n<p>The police have no need to be able to track everyone, everywhere, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s important, and needs some action on your part to prevent a corrosive overreach of government power. I also got this one from GOCRA yesterday; it&#8217;s not a &#8220;gun rights&#8221; thing, but it&#8217;s an important civil liberty issue, and it needs your attention: Minneapolis Police (as well as many other departments) use automated license [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51,100],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-36374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny","category-your-papers-please","tag-2nd-amendment-grass-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39399,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36374\/revisions\/39399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}