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Scaled-back Big Brother bill still pushes license plate readers, GPS tracking w/o warrants

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Besides a brief update to a blog post from Karen Brooks at the Dallas News, Forrest Wilder at the Texas Observer seems to be the only journalist who covered yesterday afternoon's hearing in the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security on SB 9 - Chairman Tommy Williams' Big-Brotherish, prosecutor-wish list legislation couched as a border security effort - reporting that the bill became "(Somehwat) Less Big-Brotherish" over the course of the hearing. (On Monday, Grits called the legislation "Big Brother on steroids.") In particular, the idea of using checkpoints for immigration checks or nabbing asset-forfeiture income basically ran aground on the rocky shores of reality:A long parade of witnesses, including the El Paso District Attorney and DPS Director Steve McCraw, pointed out specific ways that drivers license checkpoints can run afoul of the 4th Amendment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).