MSNBC reports that California has proposed stronger legislation to help fight cellular technology in prisons: Discoveries of contraband cell phones in California prisons doubled in 2008 from the year before, with over 2,800 seized. A standardized reporting system was put in place by CDCR last year to allow all prisons to uniformly report the number … Continue reading Cell Phone Monitoring and Prisons
Crooks and Liars provides an emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: a white-supremacist radical Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we’re starting to learn more about Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that his guns were going to be taken away. It appears that … Continue reading Social Media Breeding Extreme Right Wing in America
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that sabotage suspected in widespread phone outage in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties Police are investigating whether sabotage to an underground fiber optic cable in south San Jose caused a widespread phone service outage in southern Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties this morning that included disruption to 911 … Continue reading California Fiber Break Cripples Counties
A letter in Missouri State from February 20th has stoked a lot of attention by attempting to profile domestic militia and terrorist members, and doing a really poor job of it. Chuck Baldwin for example found it offensive: On March 23, DPS Director John Britt sent an apology letter to Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and … Continue reading Missouri Renounces MIAC Report