tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22865265157862751042024-03-19T00:17:11.658-07:00Federal Criminal Defense InvestigationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger982125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-2993508816572561192013-04-15T12:14:00.000-07:002013-04-15T12:15:16.182-07:00Closing Arguments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Since his first days in law school, Rodgers has always found himself drawn to the stories behind the case numbers. When a new file comes across his desk, he will often flip first to the “facts” section just to read the colorful background information on the case.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">“Sometimes it’s so depraved you wonder what the hell’s going on,” he says of the stories. “Other times, somebody will do something so noble it’ll bring tears to your eyes. … You just never know.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Sporting round spectacles and a thick mustache, Rodgers, 61, has long served as a passionate advocate for defendants who cannot afford legal representation. He has spent more than 35 years practicing defense law in Spokane, overseeing the county’s public defender operations for the past decade.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Spokane County Bar Association recently named Rodgers as the 2013 recipient of its most prestigious honor, the Smithmoore P. Myers Professionalism Award, named for the renowned U.S. magistrate judge and former dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law. The award will be presented at a banquet next week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">On the heels of that honor, Rodgers has announced he plans to leave the Public Defender’s office at the end of this year. He loves the law and he loves the stories, but he says he’s ready for a new chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A<span class="Lede">s director </span>of the Public Defender’s office, Rodgers oversees 56 attorneys and 27 support staff members, including paralegals, investigators and administrative employees. The office handles thousands of indigent criminal and civil cases each year on an annual budget of about $8.4 million.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">But Spokane County’s top public defender almost became a bookkeeper. Raised in a conservative family on the South Hill, Rodgers went on to major in accounting and literature at the University of Washington. He says he only discovered his love of the law by happenstance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">While attending law school at Gonzaga, Rodgers first joined the Public Defender’s office as a volunteer in the mid-1970s. He stayed on after graduation for several years before starting his own private practice in 1993. He returned to the Public Defender’s office as director in 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Rodgers says the core mission of a public defender remains the same as any defense attorney. Regardless of payment or politics, they must provide the best legal defense possible for their clients.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">“It isn’t different because I work for the government,” he says. “It isn’t different because my client is poor. It’s exactly the same. … My job is to see that my client’s rights are scrupulously honored.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Rodgers has argued hundreds of cases throughout his career, defending clients in several difficult death penalty cases as well as a notorious 1997 federal case against a group of anti-government militia members accused of bombings and bank robberies throughout the region. His colleagues describe him as fair-minded and hardworking.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-85033643171691272482013-04-12T13:30:00.000-07:002013-04-14T13:30:47.220-07:00Good Information on Gun Laws State by StateIn need of state by state information on gun purchasing regulations? Look no further than <a href="http://www.homesecurity.org/blog/guns-in-america-how-to-buy-sell-shoot-in-every-state/">Home Security's</a> interactive map of gun regulations state by state. khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720776751436871482noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-73599431462604553782013-04-10T11:42:00.003-07:002013-04-10T11:43:16.258-07:00Women’s Law Caucus Will Honor Jaime Hawk with Myra Bradwell Award<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jaime Hawk, 2004 graduate of Gonzaga Law and an Assistant Federal Defender currently on detail in <a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/event/decade-gatherings/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All-Class Reunion</a>, <a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/event/law-centennial-gala/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Centennial Gala</a>, and <a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/centers-programs/race-task-force/pursuit-of-justice-conference/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pursuit of Justice conference</a>. The ceremony is free and open to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Washington, D.C., has been named the 2013 Myra Bradwell Award recipient. A ceremony and reception to honor Hawk will be held April 19th at 5:15 p.m. at Gonzaga Law School as a part of the Centennial Weekend at Gonzaga Law, which will also include the <span style="line-height: 18.5px;"> the </span><a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/event/decade-gatherings/" style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All-Class Reunion</a><span style="line-height: 18.5px;">, </span><a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/event/law-centennial-gala/" style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Centennial Gala</a><span style="line-height: 18.5px;">, and </span><a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/centers-programs/race-task-force/pursuit-of-justice-conference/" style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pursuit of Justice conference</a><span style="line-height: 18.5px;">. The ceremony is free and open to the public.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hawk began her legal career as a women’s rights fellow on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She worked on Violence Against Women Act reauthorization and was a member of Senator Kennedy’s team on the Bankruptcy Bill, supporting then-Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren’s drafting of legislative amendments in an effort to relieve disproportionate economic effects on women and children in poverty.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now a federal defender, Hawk has served as an Adjunct Professor of Juvenile Law at Gonzaga. Before working in federal court, she received the President’s Award from the Washington Defender Association for her work as a juvenile defender, where she helped implement a juvenile justice reform project. She is also a past president of the Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, where she led public service initiatives focused on youth including efforts to combat teen dating violence. That year she was named “Star of the Year” by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hawk is active in a range of equal justice initiatives and works to support many organizations and bar associations that serve women and children and provide access to justice for low-income individuals and families. She has served on boards of Washington Women Lawyers and on the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence for several years. She is currently on the Board of the Center for Women and Democracy, promoting women’s leadership development and helping lead international delegations to Chile, Morocco, Vietnam, and Rwanda. Senators Murray and Cantwell appointed Hawk to serve on the federal judicial selection committee for the Eastern District of Washington.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hawk’s dedication to improving the lives of women and children began many years ago and continued at Gonzaga. Before law school, she worked as a domestic violence and sexual assault advocate in Boston. As a law student, she represented immigrant children with Columbia Legal Services and spent a summer in the Balkans where she helped draft a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Violence Against Women report with a focus on domestic violence and sex trafficking. For several years after law school, she led statewide campaign efforts to address women’s human rights issues with Amnesty International. Hawk now co-leads an ABA effort to recruit and train lawyers around the country to represent children in immigration proceedings at no cost to the children.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At Gonzaga Law, Jaime was a <a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/centers-programs/thomas-more/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas More Scholar</a> and received both the Public Service Award and the John Morey Maurice Leadership and Service Award. She founded the law school’s <a href="http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/students/student-organizations/mission-possible/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mission : Possible alternative international spring break program</a>, now in its tenth year organizing service projects to benefit children and the local community.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For 20 years, the Gonzaga Women’s Law Caucus has awarded this honor annually to a Gonzaga Law alumnus who has made a difference in the lives of women and children. The award is named for Myra Colby Bradwell, who was admitted to the Illinois Bar Association in 1890 after being denied admission 20 years earlier due to gender. Previous award recipients have included Washington State Supreme Court Justices Barbara Madsen, Debra Stephens, and Mary Fairhurst, Spokane Superior Court Judges Ellen Kalama Clark and Tari Eitzen, former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, Cheryl Wolfe, Victoria Vreeland, and many other influential women.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Please RSVP to the Myra Bradwell award ceremony by April 17th, 2013 by sending an email to<a href="mailto:myrabradwellaward@gmail.com" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">myrabradwellaward@gmail.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The California-based company AOptix rolled out a new hardware and app package that transforms an iPhone into a mobile biometric reader. As first reported by Danger Room in February, AOptix is the recipient of a <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/biometric-smartphone/" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">$3 million research contract from the Pentagon</a> for its on-the-go biometrics technology.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Opting for what it considers ease of use, the company decided to build its latest biometrics package, which it calls Stratus, atop an iPhone. A peripheral covering wraps around the phone — it’s an inch and a half thick, three inches wide and six inches tall — while the AOptix Stratus app presents a user interface familiar to any iOS user. Except you’re not going to be recording Vine videos, you’re going to be recording the most unique physical features of another human being.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“From an end-user perspective, it’s much, much smaller, lighter and easier to use an app-based capability” than the <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/military-prison-builds-big-afghan-biometric-database/" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">bulky biometrics tools</a> currently in military use, Joey Pritikin, an AOptix vice president, tells Danger Room. “Anyone who’s used an iPhone before can pick this up and use it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Anyone who’s ever used an iPhone will also be familiar with the Stratus app’s user experience for typing in annotations to the biometrics collected: small fields that look like any other iOS text feature allow quick notations. Standard iPhone geo-tagging is easy to enable, as a demo walkthrough AOptix showed Danger Room demonstrated. SMTP email functions transmit the biometric information back to a customer’s database. And an open architecture allows Stratus customers to develop their own add-ons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">But Stratus “is not a 99-cent application,” clarifies Amanda North, AOptix’s marketing vice president. The app sells for $199, and the company isn’t disclosing how much its peripheral costs. While conceivably any individual who wants to drop that much money can rig his or her iPhone for biometric collection can, “it’s not a consumer application,” North says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">It’s also not designed for every iPhone: AOptix built Stratus for the iPhone 4 and 4S, citing what it says was customer request. It doesn’t work with the iPhone 5, and the company isn’t saying what its plans are for future iPhone upgrades.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">AOptix doesn’t specify its customers, but they’re from the U.S. government: Pritikin says the company has “substantial interest across a wide variety of agencies, not just DOD [the Department of Defense].” At a time of government austerity, it’s a bit curious that the company would have picked high-end Apple devices for its mobile biometrics platform: the Army, for instance, likes <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/begun-these-army-phone-wars-have/" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">cheaper Android phones</a>. Pritikin says AOptix chose iOS because it’s “a much more secure platform.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Full article by Spencer Ackerman can be found <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/iphone-biometrics/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<a href="http://ndia.net/sites/default/files/Clarence%20Counts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Clarence E. Counts, Jr." border="0" height="200" src="http://ndia.net/sites/default/files/Clarence%20Counts.jpg" title="Clarence E. Counts, Jr." width="174" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">From the NDIA: Clarence E. Counts, Jr., an investigator with the Federal Public Defender's Office in Jacksonville, FL, died March 13, 2013, at the very young age of 28. Clarence was a member of the NDIA for only five years, but, in that time, he made a tremendous impression on those he knew in the organization. In fact, Clarence Counts was profiled in the July 2012 edition of the NDIA's newsletter, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eagle's Eye</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">, only a short time before he discovered he had cancer. The article told an amazing story of how Clarence worked hard to break free from the extreme poverty of his early years, how his adopted family taught him about love, and his college trials. In short, it was awe inspiring. Clarence's presence at our conferences and his zealous work for the indigent will most certainly be missed. For more about Clarence's life, login to the NDIA website's Members Area and read Patti Gallo's Spotlight article on Clarence. You may also read his obituary </span><a href="http://ndia.net/sites/default/files/Clarence%20Counts%20Obit.pdf" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1554f6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-41944022519075288422013-04-09T12:14:00.002-07:002013-04-09T12:14:49.428-07:00Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-aircard/" target="_blank">Wired</a>:</div>
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A legal fight over the government’s use of a secret
surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works
and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to
track a suspect.</div>
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Court documents in a case involving accused identity thief
Daniel David Rigmaiden describe how the wireless provider reached out remotely
to reprogram an air card the suspect was using in order to make it communicate
with the government’s surveillance tool so that he could be located.</div>
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Rigmaiden, who is
accused of being the <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/fake-tax-returns/" title="Identity Thieves Filed for $4 Million in Tax Refunds Using Names of Living and Dead">ringleader of
a $4 million tax fraud operation</a>, asserts in court documents that in July
2008 Verizon surreptitiously reprogrammed his air card to make it respond to
incoming voice calls from the FBI and also reconfigured it so that it would
connect to a fake cell site, or stingray, that the FBI was using to track his
location.</div>
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Air cards are devices that plug into a computer and use the
wireless cellular networks of phone providers to connect the computer to the
internet. The devices are not phones and therefore don’t have the ability to
receive incoming calls, but in this case Rigmaiden asserts that Verizon
reconfigured his air card to respond to surreptitious voice calls from a
landline controlled by the FBI.</div>
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The FBI calls, which contacted the air card silently in the
background, operated as pings to force the air card into revealing its
location.</div>
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In order to do this, Verizon reprogrammed the device so that
when an incoming voice call arrived, the card would disconnect from any
legitimate cell tower to which it was already connected, and send real-time
cell-site location data to Verizon, which forwarded the data to the FBI. This
allowed the FBI to position its stingray in the neighborhood where Rigmaiden
resided. The stingray then “broadcast a very strong signal” to force the air
card into connecting to it, instead of reconnecting to a legitimate cell tower,
so that agents could then triangulate signals coming from the air card and
zoom-in on Rigmaiden’s location.</div>
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To make sure the air card connected to the FBI’s simulator,
Rigmaiden says that Verizon altered his air card’s Preferred Roaming List so
that it would accept the FBI’s stingray as a legitimate cell site and not a
rogue site, and also changed a data table on the air card designating the
priority of cell sites so that the FBI’s fake site was at the top of the
list.</div>
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Rigmaiden makes the assertions in a 369-page document he filed
in support of a motion to suppress evidence gathered through the stingray.
Rigmaiden collected information about how the stingray worked from documents
obtained from the government, as well as from records obtained through FOIA
requests filed by civil liberties groups and from open-source literature.</div>
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During a <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gov-fights-stingray-case/all/" title="Government Fights for Use of Spy Tool That Spoofs Cell Towers">hearing
in a U.S. District Court in Arizona</a> on March 28 to discuss the motion, the
government did not dispute Rigmaiden’s assertions about Verizon’s
activities.</div>
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The actions described by Rigmaiden are much more intrusive
than previously known information about how the government uses stingrays, which
are generally employed for tracking cell phones and are widely used in drug and
other criminal investigations.</div>
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The government has long asserted that it doesn’t need to
obtain a probable-cause warrant to use the devices because they don’t collect
the content of phone calls and text messages and operate like pen-registers and
trap-and-traces, collecting the equivalent of header information.</div>
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The government has conceded, however, that it needed a warrant
in his case alone — because the stingray reached into his apartment remotely to
locate the air card — and that the activities performed by Verizon and the FBI
to locate Rigmaiden were all authorized by a court order signed by a
magistrate.</div>
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil
Liberties Union of Northern California, who have filed an amicus brief in
support of Rigmaiden’s motion, maintain that the order does not qualify as a
warrant and that the government withheld crucial information from the magistrate
— such as identifying that the tracking device they planned to use was a
stingray and that its use involved intrusive measures — thus preventing the
court from properly fulfilling its oversight function.</div>
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“It shows you just how crazy the technology is, and [supports]
all the more the need to explain to the court what they are doing,” says EFF
Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury. “This is more than just [saying to Verizon] give
us some records that you have sitting on your server. This is reconfiguring and
changing the characteristics of the [suspect's] property, without informing the
judge what’s going on.”</div>
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The secretive technology, generically known as a stingray or
IMSI catcher, allows law enforcement agents to spoof a legitimate cell tower in
order to trick nearby mobile phones and other wireless communication devices
like air cards into connecting to the stingray instead of a phone carrier’s
legitimate tower.</div>
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When devices connect, stingrays can see and record their
unique ID numbers and traffic data, as well as information that points to the
device’s location.</div>
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By moving the stingray around and gathering the wireless
device’s signal strength from various locations in a neighborhood, authorities
can pinpoint where the device is being used with much more precision than they
can get through data obtained from a mobile network provider’s fixed tower
location.</div>
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Use of the spy technology goes back at least 20 years. In a
2009 Utah case, an FBI agent described using a cell site emulator more than 300
times over a decade and indicated that they were used on a daily basis by U.S,
Marshals, the Secret Service and other federal agencies.</div>
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The FBI used a
similar device <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/catching.html">to track former
hacker Kevin Mitnick</a> in 1994, though the version used in that case was much
more primitive and passive.</div>
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A 1996 <em>Wired</em> story about the Mitnick case called the
device a Triggerfish and described it as “a technician’s device normally used
for testing cell phones.” According to the story, the Triggerfish was “a
rectangular box of electronics about a half a meter high controlled by a
PowerBook” that was essentially “a five-channel receiver, able to monitor both
sides of a conversation simultaneously.” The crude technology was hauled around
in a station wagon and van. A black coaxial cable was strung out of the
vehicle’s window to connect the Triggerfish to a direction-finding antenna on
the vehicle’s roof, which had four antenna prongs that reached 30 centimeters
into the sky.</div>
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The technology has become much sleeker and less obtrusive
since then, but still operates under the same principles.</div>
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Full article by Kim Zetter can be found<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-aircard/" target="_blank"> her</a>e.</div>
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National Records Center<br />
PO Box 648010<br />
Lee's Summit, MO 64064-8010<br />
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Lice assistance- 1-800-375-5283<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-77085732665810846862013-02-08T11:09:00.003-08:002013-02-08T11:10:23.346-08:00U.S. Prison Population Seeing “Unprecedented Increase”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>From <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/u-s-prison-population-seeing-unprecedented-increase/" target="_blank">IPS</a>:</i></div>
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The research wing of the U.S. Congress is warning that three decades of
“historically unprecedented” build-up in the number of prisoners incarcerated in
the United States have led to a level of overcrowding that is now “taking a toll
on the infrastructure” of the federal prison system.</div>
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Over the past 30 years, according to a new report by the Congressional
Research Service (CRS), the federal prison population has jumped from 25,000 to
219,000 inmates, an increase of nearly 790 percent. Swollen by such figures, for
years the United States has incarcerated far more people than any other country,
today imprisoning some 716 people out of every 100,000. (Although CRS reports
are not made public, a copy can be found <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42937.pdf">here</a>.)</div>
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“This is one of the major human rights problems within the United States, as
many of the people caught up in the criminal justice system are low income,
racial and ethnic minorities, often forgotten by society,” Maria McFarland,
deputy director for the U.S. programme at Human Rights Watch, told IPS.</div>
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In recent years, as a consequence of the imposition of very harsh sentencing
policies, McFarland’s office has seen new patterns emerging of juveniles and
very elderly people being put in prison.</div>
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“Last year, some 95,000 juveniles under 18 years of age were put in prison,
and that doesn't count those in juvenile facilities,” she noted.</div>
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“And between 2007 and 2011, the population of those over 64 grew by 94 times
the rate of the regular population. Prisons clearly aren’t equipped to take care
of these aging people, and you have to question what threat they pose to society
– and the justification for imprisoning them.”</div>
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According to the new CRS report, a growing number of these prisoners are
being put away for charges related to immigration violations and weapons
possession. But the largest number is for relatively paltry drug offences – an
approach that report author Nathan James, a CRS analyst in crime policy, warns
may not be useful in bringing down crime statistics.</div>
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“Research suggests that while incarceration did contribute to lower violent
crime rates in the 1990s, there are declining marginal returns associated with
ever increasing levels of incarceration,” James notes. He suggests that one
potential explanation for this could be that people have been increasingly
incarcerated for crimes in which there is a “high level of replacement”.</div>
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For instance, he says, if a serial rapist is incarcerated, the judicial
system has the power to prevent further sexual assaults by that offender, and it
is likely that no one will take the offender’s place. “However, if a drug dealer
is incarcerated, it is possible that someone will step in to take that person’s
place,” James writes. “Therefore, no further crimes may be averted by
incarcerating the individual.”</div>
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<strong><strong>Smarter on crime</strong></strong></div>
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Of course, the U.S. prison population’s blooming needs to be traced back to
changes within the federal criminal justice system. Recent decades have seen an
expanding “get tough” approach on crime here, under which even nonviolent
offenders are facing stiff prison sentences.</div>
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In turn, overcrowding has become a massive issue, with the federal prison
system as a whole operating at 39 percent over capacity in 2011, according to
CRS. The result has also been significant price overruns, with the Bureau of
Prisons budget doubling to nearly 6.4 billion dollars even while hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of unaddressed infrastructure problems continue to
mount.</div>
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Yet the problems being experienced by the federal prison system actually
stand in contrast to certain trends at the state level. While some states have
dealt with even more worrisome problems of prison overcrowding – including
California, which in 2011 was ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court to take steps to
reduce the pressure – recent years have seen movement at the state level to
counter over-incarceration.</div>
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Some of this action may have come from serious state budget crises.
Currently, after all, it costs between 25,000 and 30,000 dollars to house a
prisoner in the United States.</div>
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According to a <a href="http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/sen_State%20of%20Sentencing%202012.pdf">new
report</a> by the Sentencing Project, a Washington advocacy group working on
prison reform, prisoner populations in the United States overall declined by
around 1.5 percent in 2011. Furthermore, last year lawmakers in 24 states
adopted policies that “may contribute to downscaling prison populations”.</div>
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“There has been a marked change in the amount of activity at the state level
to end our addiction to incarceration,” Vineeta Gupta, deputy legal director
with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told IPS.</div>
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“Some states are currently having many discussions they would not have had 10
years ago – getting smarter on crime rather than tougher on crime. None of these
moves are comprehensive enough to address the large scope of the problem, but
they’re very important starting points.”</div>
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She continued: “Unfortunately, the federal government has been going in the
opposite direction.”</div>
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Full article can be found <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/u-s-prison-population-seeing-unprecedented-increase/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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From NBC News:<br />
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The FBI is urging computer users — young teens and parents of those teens — to take precautions to help prevent becoming victims of "sextortion," where criminals use social networks to gain users' trust, convincing them to send lewd or pornographic photos or videos, then threatening to share them widely if more photos aren't sent.<br />
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In one recent case, a 13-year-old girl pleaded with a man who had initially gained her trust that she did not want to take her shirt off in front of a webcam, telling the extortionist she had "a life, please do not ruin it," the FBI said in a release. But eventually, stricken with fear, the teen gave into his demands.<br />
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That man, Christopher Patrick Gunn, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced last month to 35 years in prison for producing child pornography through his massive online sextortion scheme, the FBI said.<br />
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For more than two years, he gained the trust of girls in a half-dozen states and in Ireland by using two ruses. One was the "new kid" approach. He created a fake Facebook profile, and posted in messages to the girls that he was new in the area and looking to make friends, said the FBI. "Once he established a level of trust, he began making demands."<br />
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In the second ruse, he pretended to be Justin Bieber on various video chat services, including Skype. (Gunn, in his 30s, does not look like the teen heartthrob, so he may have only been using text chat on the services.) Once Gunn convinced the teens he was Bieber, the FBI says, "he offered them free concert tickets or backstage passes in exchange for topless photos or webcam videos."<br />
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With either ploy, Gunn "got to know everything about the girls — their friends’ names, their schools, their parents’ names — it was like a script," Erik Doell, a special agent in the FBI’s Montgomery office who investigated the case, said in the release. "Once he got a picture, the girls would just go along with it. They would do whatever they could to keep their reputations intact."<br />
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Frighteningly, the Gunn case is hardly an isolated one.<br />
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Just last week, the FBI arrested a 27-year-old Los Angeles-area man who they say tricked women into posing nude on Skype's video chat service. The man, Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, is believed to have hacked into hundreds of women's Facebook accounts, looking at them for naked pictures. He then took on the persona of some of the women and persuaded their friends to send naked photos of themselves or appear nude on Skype, the U.S. Attorney's office said in a statement.<br />
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Full article at NBC News can be found <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/worried-about-sextortion-fbi-shares-cautionary-tale-1B8287395" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-13607183869251643672013-01-04T01:07:00.000-08:002013-01-04T01:07:00.479-08:00FBI Lists Most Significant Cases of 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The following list was <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/december/the-year-in-review-part-2/the-year-in-review-part-2" style="background-color: inherit; color: #286ea0; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">posted by the FBI</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The FBI said it recorded 2.8 million background checks during the month, surpassing the mark set in November of 2 million checks. The number was up 49 percent over December 2011, when the FBI performed a then-record 1.9 million checks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Consumer demand for guns appears to have accounted for the uptick in activity. There were no changes in FBI background check procedures that would have affected the December numbers, FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The national debate on guns has grown louder since December 14 when Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children and six adults before committing suicide in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, investigators said. Lanza also killed his mother, the registered owner of the guns used in the killings, before going to the school.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-11417255471983192042013-01-02T12:59:00.001-08:002013-01-02T12:59:28.910-08:00University of North Carolina's Fraud Running Deeper?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">In early December, former Governor of North Carolina, Jim Martin, declared the University of North Carolina free from any wrongdoing in an alleged athletic scandal, which revolved around questionable classes within the Department of African American Studies. Martin claimed that officials tried to raise red flags on a couple different occasions. Specifically, Martin said that in 2002 and 2006, officials informed the Faculty Committee of Athletics of the abnormally higher than expected number of independent enrollments and lecture courses that had all of a sudden turned in to independent studies. Martin reported that this committee responded by stating that the professors operated with “high latitude on how to teach a course”, and Martin firmly stated that while the courses were filled with mainly athletes, there was no athletic scandal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the proclamation by the former Governor, the University of North Carolina seemed to have mitigated some of its potential damage. However, a recent review of the faculty minutes do not allude to any such red flags ever being raised. In fact, several faculty members have specifically addressed the proclamation and asserted that the alleged red flags were never raised or that they do not remember them existing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A former committee chair in 2002, Dr. Stanley Mandel, commented on the alleged red flags being brought up. “You won’t find any reference to it in the committee minutes because there was no reference to it,” said Mandel. “There was no discussion. Nothing was brought up.” A former committee member from 2006 stated, “It seemed like everyone around the table was congratulating themselves about what a squeaky clean program they had.” With this recent news about the red flags never being brought up via the evidence of the committee minutes, it seems as if Martin has potentially made some borderline fraudulent statements. Still, Martin’s report showed that 216 classes had either proven or potential problems, and 560 classes were suspected to have incurred unauthorized grade changes. The opposite of squeaky-clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Full article by <a href="http://www.sportsagentblog.com/" target="_blank">Darren Heitner</a> can be found<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2013/01/02/university-of-north-carolinas-fraud-running-deeper/" target="_blank"> here</a>.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-6184858210868912602012-12-19T09:46:00.000-08:002012-12-19T09:50:42.533-08:00Buyers Rush to Firearms Dealers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“I want to be just one step ahead of everybody else,” said Bishop, who was checking out the Spokane gun store’s selection of pistols. “I don’t want to come in here to get something left over that nobody wants.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Bishop isn’t the only buyer rushing to a nearby firearms dealer. Spokane gun stores are reporting increased sales since the Newtown, Conn., school massacre Friday, which has sparked talk in Congress of potential gun control legislation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Sales already appeared to be up in 2012 before the latest tragedy. The FBI, which operates the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, reports record gun background checks for the year. The FBI ran checks on more than 16.8 million people through November nationwide. Even without December’s numbers, that’s a 2 percent increase from last year. About 444,000 of those were in Washington state.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Several Democratic lawmakers, including Washington’s U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, are promising gun reform in the wake of last week’s school shooting, as well as the Clackamas Town Center shooting in Portland.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The lawmakers say that at the very least they will push to reinstate the Clinton-era ban on certain types of semi-automatic rifles often called assault weapons. The ban expired in 2004.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-59963411490721704762012-12-14T15:59:00.003-08:002012-12-14T16:00:07.988-08:00Delta Air Lines Subpoena Compliance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Considered misunderstood at best and dangerous at worst, the Lilac City’s police force remains plagued by widespread public cynicism, ongoing legal entanglements and a fractured sense of purpose.</div>
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Hardly unpacked in his new city, Straub brings with him broad experience in regional and federal law enforcement. He carries the title “doctor” from a Ph.D. in criminal justice. He also carries a loaded .40-caliber Glock on his hip.</div>
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But before Straub could even take his oath, two potential allies — Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and the Spokane Police Guild — had already questioned his selection as chief. City officials had eyed cuts to his budget and staffing. Union negotiations had stalled for nearly a year, and the sticky issue of marijuana legalization had gone to voters. Above all, crime rates had continued to spike within a community long estranged from its police force.</div>
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On this recent afternoon, Straub has called together more than a dozen local mental health experts to discuss cross-agency partnerships. Around the conference table, he asks for their support and expertise, promising them reform in return. Hospital directors, nonprofit leaders and psychiatry professors nod along with his suggestions.</div>
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“All I hear is the department sucks at helping the homeless or the mentally ill,” Straub tells the group. “I know we don’t suck. … We need to figure this out collectively because it’s better for all of us.”</div>
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They nod again. Not one questions his sanity.</div>
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Straub knows he still has much to prove to his own officers and the city they serve. Many local leaders, weary of in-fighting and perceived institutional incompetence, have high hopes for his administration. But they also have little tolerance left for failure.</div>
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Revealing a hidden optimist, Straub says he sees only opportunity. He sees officers too long held back from the work they love. He sees a police department too long distracted by politics and tragedy. He sees a city too long divided. But, beyond that, despite its bitter and broken history, he sees a community yearning for a new direction.</div>
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“We need to change the story,” he says.</div>
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Full article can be found<a href="http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-18757-chief-of-change.html" target="_blank"> here</a>.</div>
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All states define driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or
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Administrative license suspensions allow law enforcement to confiscate a
driver's license when he or she fails a chemical test. Several states grant
limited driving privileges – such as driving to and from work – to drivers
whose license has been suspended if the driver is able to demonstrate special
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All states have some type of ignition interlock law, in which judges
require all or a portion of convicted drunk drivers to install interlocks in
their cars. These devices analyze a driver's breath and disable the engine if
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Federal programs transfer surface transportation funding to the <a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/programs/402.html"><span style="color: #793184;">Section 402 highway safety grant program</span></a> for
states that fail to adopt <a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/programs/154.html"><span style="color: #793184;">open container</span></a> and <a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/programs/164.html"><span style="color: #793184;">repeat offender</span></a> laws.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alcohol exclusion laws let insurance companies deny payment for
treatment of drunk drivers' injuries, but they have limited doctors' abilities
to diagnose alcohol problems and recommend treatment. Some states have repealed
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<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/al.html" style="color: #993399;">Ala.</a></td><td>.15</td><td align="center" valign="top">90 days</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ak.html" style="color: #993399;">Alaska</a></td><td>.15<br />
<em>(at judges' disc.)</em></td><td>90 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Vehicle impoundment</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/az.html" style="color: #993399;">Ariz.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Immobilization or impoundment</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ar.html" style="color: #993399;">Ark.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>6 months</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ca.html" style="color: #993399;">Calif.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>4 months</td><td>After 30 days</td><td align="left">Discretionary<br />
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Mandatory for all convictions in Alameda, Los Angeles, Tulare and Sacramento counties (pilot project)</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/co.html" style="color: #993399;">Colo.</a></td><td>.17</td><td>3 months</td><td>Yes</td><td>Highly incentivized for all convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ct.html" style="color: #993399;">Conn.</a></td><td>.16</td><td>90 days</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/de.html" style="color: #993399;">Del.</a></td><td>.16</td><td>3 months</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) and repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle sanction and license plate impoundment</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/dc.html" style="color: #993399;">D.C.</a></td><td>.20 and .25</td><td>2-90 days or until disposition</td><td>Yes</td><td>Discretionary</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left" rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/fl.html" style="color: #993399;">Fla.</a></td><td rowspan="2">.20</td><td>6 months for DUBAL</td><td>After 30 days</td><td rowspan="2">Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) convictions</td><td rowspan="2">Impoundment, vehicle forfeiture</td><td rowspan="2">Yes</td><td rowspan="2">Yes</td><td rowspan="2">Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td>12 months for refusal</td><td>After 90 days</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ga.html" style="color: #993399;">Ga.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>1 year</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/gu.html" style="color: #993399;">Guam</a></td><td>From .08 to .10</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/hi.html" style="color: #993399;">Hawaii</a></td><td>.15</td><td>3 months</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/id.html" style="color: #993399;">Idaho</a></td><td>.20</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Discretionary</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/il.html" style="color: #993399;">Ill.</a></td><td>.16</td><td>6 months</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/in.html" style="color: #993399;">Ind.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>180 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ia.html" style="color: #993399;">Iowa</a></td><td>.15</td><td>180 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Discretionary</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ks.html" style="color: #993399;">Kan.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>30 days</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ky.html" style="color: #993399;">Ky.</a></td><td>.18</td><td>30 - 120 days</td><td>Yes</td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Impoundment</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left" height="90" valign="top"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/la.html" style="color: #993399;">La.</a> <sup><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/impaired_laws.html#1" style="color: #993399;">1</a></sup></td><td>.15 and .20</td><td>See footnote</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/me.html" style="color: #993399;">Maine</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>Yes</td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/md.html" style="color: #993399;">Md.</a></td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB">.15</td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB">45 days</td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB">Yes, under certain circum-<br />
stances</td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB">Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) convictions</td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB"></td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB">Yes</td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB">Yes</td><td bgcolor="#EBEBEB"></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ma.html" style="color: #993399;">Mass.</a></td><td>.20 (applies to ages 17-21)</td><td>90 days</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/mi.html" style="color: #993399;">Mich.</a><sup><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/impaired_laws.html#2" style="color: #993399;">2</a></sup></td><td>.17</td><td>See footnote</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/mn.html" style="color: #993399;">Minn.</a></td><td>.20</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 15 days</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC and repeat convictions</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation, special plates/<br />
markings</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ms.html" style="color: #993399;">Miss.</a></td><td></td><td>90 days</td><td></td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/mo.html" style="color: #993399;">Mo.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 30 days<br />
(restricted)</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions<br />
<em>(eff. 10/1/13)</em></td><td>Vehicle forfeiture or impoundment (cities w/ 100,000+ allowed to enact ordinance)</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/mt.html" style="color: #993399;">Mont.</a></td><td>.16</td><td></td><td></td><td>Mandatory for repeat convictions</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ne.html" style="color: #993399;">Neb.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Vehicle immobilization, continuous alcohol monitoring</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nv.html" style="color: #993399;">Nev.</a></td><td>.18</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 45 days</td><td>Discretionary</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nh.html" style="color: #993399;">N.H.</a></td><td>.16</td><td>6 months</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for high BAC convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nj.html" style="color: #993399;">N.J.</a></td><td>.10</td><td></td><td></td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) and repeat convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nm.html" style="color: #993399;">N.M.</a></td><td>.16 (w/ mand. jail on all offenses)</td><td><21: 1="1" br="br" yr.="yr."><u>></u>21: 6 mo.<!--21:--><!--21:--><!--21:--></21:></td><td>Immediately w/ Ignition Interlock</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Immobilization of vehicle for driving while revoked</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ny.html" style="color: #993399;">N.Y.</a></td><td>.18</td><td>Variable</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nc.html" style="color: #993399;">N.C.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>30 days</td><td>After 10 days</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) and repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nd.html" style="color: #993399;">N.D.</a></td><td>.18</td><td>91 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Vehicle confiscation, license plate removal</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/nmi.html" style="color: #993399;">M.P.</a></td><td></td><td>30 days -<br />
<6 months="months" td="td"><!--6--><!--6--></6></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><!--6--></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/oh.html" style="color: #993399;">Ohio</a></td><td>.17</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 15 days</td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation or immobilization, restricted plates</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ok.html" style="color: #993399;">Okla.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>180 days</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15), repeat convictions, and refusals</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/or.html" style="color: #993399;">Ore.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for all diversions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/pa.html" style="color: #993399;">Pa.</a> <sup><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/impaired_laws.html#3" style="color: #993399;">3</a></sup></td><td>.16</td><td></td><td>See footnote</td><td>Mandatory for repeat convictions</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ri.html" style="color: #993399;">R.I.</a></td><td>.15</td><td></td><td></td><td>Judicial discretion on 3rd or subsequent conviction</td><td>Judicial discretion on 3rd or subsequent conviction</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/sc.html" style="color: #993399;">S.C.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>1 month (for <u>></u>.15 BAC)</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/sd.html" style="color: #993399;">S.D.</a> <sup><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/impaired_laws.html#4" style="color: #993399;">4</a></sup></td><td>.17</td><td>See footnote</td><td>Yes</td><td>Discretionary</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/tn.html" style="color: #993399;">Tenn.</a></td><td>.20</td><td></td><td></td><td>Mandatory for high BAC and repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/tx.html" style="color: #993399;">Texas</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days if .08 or greater; 180 days for refusal</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for repeat convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/ut.html" style="color: #993399;">Utah</a></td><td>.16</td><td>120 days</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Impoundment</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/vt.html" style="color: #993399;">Vt.</a></td><td></td><td>90 days</td><td></td><td>Discretionary</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle confiscation</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/vi.html" style="color: #993399;">V.I.</a></td><td></td><td>Variable</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Revoke license plate</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/va.html" style="color: #993399;">Va.</a></td><td>.15 and .20</td><td>7 days</td><td></td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Vehicle confiscation</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/wa.html" style="color: #993399;">Wash.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>With an ignition interlock driver’s license</td><td>Mandatory for all convictions</td><td>Mandatory tow and 12 hour impound</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/wv.html" style="color: #993399;">W.Va.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>6 months</td><td>After 30 days</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) and repeat convictions</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/wi.html" style="color: #993399;">Wis.</a></td><td>.17, .20 and .25</td><td>6 months</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) and repeat convictions</td><td>Impoundment, vehicle seizure/<br />
forfeiture</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td align="left"><a href="http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/wy.html" style="color: #993399;">Wy.</a></td><td>.15</td><td>90 days</td><td>Yes</td><td>Mandatory for high BAC (<u>></u>.15) and repeat convictions</td><td align="left"></td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr align="left" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" valign="top"><td><strong>Total States</strong></td><td><strong>48 + D.C., 1 Terr.</strong></td><td><strong>42 + D.C., 2 Terr.</strong></td><td><strong>36 + D.C., 1 Terr.</strong></td><td><strong>Mandatory For</strong><br />
All (17)<br />
High BAC (5)<br />
Repeat (6)<br />
High BAC & Repeat (9)<strong><br /><br />Discretion-ary: </strong>13 + D.C.</td><td><strong>Varies</strong></td><td><strong>39 + D.C., 3 Terr.</strong></td><td><strong>37 + D.C., 3 Terr.</strong></td><td><strong>37</strong></td></tr>
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<span class="x-small" style="font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><sup><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2286526515786275104" name="1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"></a>1</sup> Louisiana requires a 45 day hard suspension of driving privileges for a second DWI conviction.<br /><sup><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2286526515786275104" name="2" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"></a>2</sup> Michigan has administrative license suspension for for refusal to submit to chemical test.<br /><sup><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2286526515786275104" name="3" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"></a>3</sup> Pennsylvania uses a program called <a href="http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/suspensionsCenter/occupationLimitedLicense.shtml" style="color: #993399;" target="_blank">Occupational Limited Licenses</a> (OLL).<br /><sup><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2286526515786275104" name="4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"></a>4</sup> South Dakota has administrative license suspension for 30 days for refusal to submit to chemical test.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-64583298918903160802012-11-06T15:03:00.001-08:002012-11-06T15:03:46.817-08:00NACDL Restoration of Rights ProjectNACDL has put together a resource that profiles the law and practice in each U.S. jurisdiction relating to relief from the collateral consequences of conviction. The information available includes individual profiles from each of the 54 state and federal jurisdictions as well as a set of charts that allows for side by side comparisons. Included are provisions on loss and restoration of civil rights and firearms privileges, legal mechanisms for overcoming or mitigating collateral consequences, and provisions addressing non-discrimination in employment and licensing. NACDL has made this information available to its members as well as the general public to aid in determining the types of relief available from the collateral consequences of convictions. The information is available on NACDL's site available <a href="https://www.nacdl.org/rightsrestoration/">here</a>.khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720776751436871482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286526515786275104.post-62392276133336382902012-10-30T15:44:00.001-07:002012-10-30T15:44:07.538-07:00Crime in the United States 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Since 1996, editions of <i>Crime in the United States</i> have been available
on the FBI’s Web site <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/">www.fbi.gov</a>. First
released in Portable Document Format (PDF) files, more recent editions have been
published in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files. The FBI’s Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Program staff are committed to improving their annual
publications so that the data they collect can better meet the needs of law
enforcement, criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the
media, and other students of criminal justice who use the statistics for varied
administrative, research, and planning purposes. For more information about how
the UCR Program collects data, see About the Uniform Crime Reporting
Program.</div>
<h2 class="blue-header" style="text-align: justify;">
Data provided</h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Crime in the United States, 2011,</i> presents data tables containing
information on the topics listed below. Data users can download Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets of the data tables and Adobe PDFs of most of the text shown.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement">Offenses
Known to Law Enforcement</a>—Includes information about violent crime offenses
(murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated
assault) and property crime offenses (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle
theft, and arson).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-offense-data">Expanded
offense data</a>—Provides additional data that the program collects on the eight
offenses. Depending on the offense, these details may include the type of
weapon and the type and value of items stolen. For the offense of murder, <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expanded-homicide-data">expanded
homicide data</a> include information about murder victims, offenders, and
circumstances that are collected as supplemental homicide data.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/clearances"><span class="internal-link">Clearances</span></a>—Furnishes information about crimes
“solved” either by arrest or exceptional means.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/persons-arrested/persons-arrested">Persons
Arrested</a>—Provides the number of arrests made by law enforcement and the age,
gender, and race of arrestees for the 28 offenses (see <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offense-definitions">Offense
Definitions</a>) for which the UCR Program publishes arrest data.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/police-employee-data">Police
Employee Data</a>—Supplies information regarding sworn officers and civilian law
enforcement personnel.</div>
<h2 class="blue-header" style="text-align: justify;">
Agencies contributing data</h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The table below shows the number of law enforcement agencies contributing
data to the UCR Program within each population group for 2011. Information
published in <i>Crime in the United States, 2011, </i>reflects data from these
agencies.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" sizcache="4" sizset="0" style="text-align: justify; width: 100%;">
<tbody sizcache="4" sizset="0">
<tr class="even first" sizcache="3" sizset="0" style="text-align: center;">
<td class="even first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
<div style="text-align: left;">
Population Group</div>
</td>
<td class="odd" valign="bottom" width="17%">
Number of Agencies</td>
<td class="even last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
Population Covered</td></tr>
<tr class="odd" sizcache="3" sizset="1">
<td class="odd first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
I (250,000 inhabitants and more)</td>
<td class="even" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
75</div>
</td>
<td class="odd last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
56,398,148</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="even" sizcache="3" sizset="2">
<td class="even first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
II (100,000 to 249,999 inhabitants)</td>
<td class="odd" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
209</div>
</td>
<td class="even last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
31,323,512</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="odd" sizcache="3" sizset="3">
<td class="odd first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
III (50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants)</td>
<td class="even" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
473</div>
</td>
<td class="odd last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
32,816,692</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="even" sizcache="3" sizset="4">
<td class="even first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
IV (25,000 to 49,999 inhabitants)</td>
<td class="odd" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
888</div>
</td>
<td class="even last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
30,762,527</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="odd" sizcache="3" sizset="5">
<td class="odd first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
V (10,000 to 24,999 inhabitants)</td>
<td class="even" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
1,929</div>
</td>
<td class="odd last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
30,586,844</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="even" sizcache="3" sizset="6">
<td class="even first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
VI<sup> </sup>(Less than 10,000 inhabitants)<sup> 1, 2 </sup></td>
<td class="odd" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
9,499</div>
</td>
<td class="even last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
26,669,678</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="odd" sizcache="3" sizset="7">
<td class="odd first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
VIII (Nonmetropolitan County)<sup>2</sup></td>
<td class="even" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
3,049</div>
</td>
<td class="odd last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
30,821,138</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="even" sizcache="3" sizset="8">
<td class="even first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
IX (Metropolitan County)<sup>2</sup></td>
<td class="odd" style="text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="17%">
2,111</td>
<td class="even last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
72,213,378</div>
</td></tr>
<tr class="odd last" sizcache="3" sizset="9">
<td class="odd first" valign="bottom" width="52%">
Total</td>
<td class="even" valign="bottom" width="17%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
18,233</div>
</td>
<td class="odd last" valign="bottom" width="30%">
<div style="text-align: right;">
311,591,917</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<sup>1</sup>Includes universities and colleges to which no population is
attributed.</div>
<sup><div style="text-align: justify;">
<sup>2</sup>Includes state police to which no population is
attributed.</div>
</sup><br />
<h2 class="blue-header" style="text-align: justify;">
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
participation</h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In 2011, 29.4 percent of state programs and the District of Columbia reported
all of their crime statistics via the NIBRS. This represented 28 percent of the
U.S. population covered by UCR participants and accounted for 27 percent of all
crime reported to the UCR Program. Thirty-six states are currently certified to
report via the NIBRS. Among agencies within those states, more than 40 percent
reported all of their statistics via the NIBRS.</div>
<h2 class="blue-header" style="text-align: justify;">
What do you think?</h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The E-Government Act of 2002 (E-Gov), enacted by Congress, promotes more
efficient uses of information technology by the federal government. This Web
publication is a result of the UCR Program’s response to that Act. We welcome
your <a class="external-link" href="http://forms.fbi.gov/ucr-feedback-2011">feedback</a> via our short
evaluation form. Your comments will help us improve the presentation of future
releases of <i>Crime in the United States.</i></div>
<h2 class="blue-header" style="text-align: justify;">
What you won’t find in this publication</h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Rankings by crime levels—Any comparisons of crime among different locales
should take into consideration numerous other factors besides the areas’ crime
statistics. Therefore, the UCR Program does not provide rankings of localities
by crime levels. <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/caution-against-ranking"><span class="internal-link">Cautions Against Ranking</span></a> provides more details
concerning the proper use of UCR statistics.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Information about unreported crime—<i>Crime in the United States</i> features
data collected from law enforcement agencies regarding only those offenses known
to police. However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), another agency
within the Department of Justice, administers the National Crime Victimization
Survey (NCVS). Using data from the NCVS, the BJS publishes information
regarding crimes not reported to the police. For more information about the
NCVS and how its data differ from information presented in <i>Crime in the
United States,</i> see <a class="internal-link" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/crime-measures"><span class="internal-link">The Nation’s Two Crime Measures</span></a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
County crime totals and “raw data”—<i>Crime in the United States</i> offers
crime data from local and county law enforcement agencies in separate tables.
These data, which are also presented individually within a county (Crime by
County), and other 2011 “raw data” from the UCR Program’s master files will be
available sometime after the release of the 2011 publication. For more
information, contact the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division
via e-mail at <a href="mailto:cjis_comm@leo.gov">cjis_comm@leo.gov</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Special studies—In previous years, <i>Crime in the United States</i> included
special studies analyzing UCR data. Such studies are now released separately
from the publication as monographs on <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/">www.fbi.gov</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Crime data for 2012—Preliminary statistics for January through June 2012 will
be available on the Web in the fall of 2012 and replaced with preliminary data
for all of 2012 in the spring of 2013. <i>Crime in the United States, 2012,</i>
will be published on the Web in the fall of 2013.</div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px 1px 1px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Everybody is talking about gun control. Got to control guns. Fuck that . . . I think we need bullet control. I think every bullet should cost five thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars for a bullet. Know why? 'Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars . . . people would think before they shot some. "Man, I would blow your fucking head off, if I could afford it. I'm gonna get me a second job, start saving up, and you a dead man."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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Idaho Supreme Court Data Repository<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://www.idcourts.us/repository/partySearch.do" target="_blank">Name Search</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.idcourts.us/repository/caseNumberSearch.do" target="_blank">Case Number Search</a></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://www.idcourts.us/repository/courtCalendar.do" target="_blank">Court Calendars</a></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">As of May 27, 2008 case information is available for examination from all 44 Idaho Counties. </span><br />
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This information will be displayed according to Idaho Court Administrative Rule (ICAR) 32.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
The status of both pending and closed cases is available to the public. However, to ensure personal privacy, the following information is not provided to the public: </div>
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<li>the first six characters of social security numbers</li>
<li>street addresses</li>
<li>telephone numbers</li>
<li>any personal identification numbers (including motor vehicle operator's license numbers and financial account numbers)</li>
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