Speak Out: Lilburn Police License Plate Readers

Are these keys to law enforcement an invasion of privacy?

Speak Out: Lilburn Police License Plate Readers

Are these keys to law enforcement an invasion of privacy?

Like some other municipalities, the city of Lilburn employs the use of license plate readers to capture the bad guys. Bad guys include those who are driving around in stolen cars, people wanted for previous crimes, those who have abducted babies, and more. In August, for example, the city used the special devices to alert them to a stolen car, which led them to eventually find a suspect hiding in the freezer of an Ingles grocery store. -- Do you think the use of these license plate readers is justified, even if the plates of law-abiding citizens are also capture? Let us know in the comment section below. -- Typically, three automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are mounted to patrol cars, and cansnap pictures of thousands of plates each …

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Thor Johnson

9:07 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Mike, Mike, mike… you can trust government. They never do anything behind your back.   more ›

ACLU Files Suit on Behalf of Georgia KKK Group

State had previously rejected Klan's bid to adopt a stretch of highway in Union County.

Three months after the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) denied a request from the Ku Klux Klan to adopt a stretch of roadway in Union County, Ga., the American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 13, accuses the State of Georgia of using "frivolous and pretextual" grounds to deny the Adopt-a-Highway application submitted by the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKKK). In rejecting the request in June of 2012, the GDOT issued a press release stating, "Encountering signage and members of the KKK along a roadway would create a definite distraction to motorists."  The GDOT also advised the section of roadway listed in the application was ineligible due to …

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Is Videotaping Police By Using New ACLU App a Good Idea?

An ACLU chapter has come up with a smart phone app that allows citizens to record and store video and audio of police encounters. Do you think it is right to make this app available to citizens?

Dacula Patch reported recently on a free smartphone app that the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has launched that allows citizens to record and store both video and audio of police encounters. “This app provides an essential tool for police accountability,” said ACLU-NJ Executive Director Deborah Jacobs in a statement posted on the chapter's website. “Too often incidents of serious misconduct go unreported because citizens don’t feel that they will be believed. Here, the technology empowers citizens to place a check on police power directly.”  The app operates in "stealth" mode. Once recording begins, the app disappears from the screen "to prevent any attempt by police to squelch the recording." The “Police Tape” …

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Ryan Smith

11:27 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012

Really? The ACLU was happy to represent Rush Limbaugh, one of their biggest detractors.   more ›

Alliance Defense Fund Joins Debate of 'LGBT' Filters in Gwinnett Schools

Alliance Defense Fund tells GCPS not to be bullied by the ACLU regarding so-called "LGBT" filters. See entire ADF Aug. 1 letter attached.

The Alliance Defense Fund is standing with Gwinnett County Public Schools in its fight against the ACLU, regarding so-called "LGBT" filters. In an August 1 letter to superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) told the school district that it "should not bow to the ACLU's demand" to remove filters from its district Internet and computer systems. If GCPS does remove the filters, the ADF believes that some of the content that would become available would indeed be pornographic. “School districts shouldn’t be bullied into exposing students to sexually explicit materials,” said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman in anaudio statement posted to its website. “This latest scare tactic — under the façade of illegal censorship — …

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