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Cops violate restricted database to target journalist

  • 22-09-2005 9:20am
    #1
    damien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭


    Via BoingBoing
    After an Edmonton journalist wrote an article criticizing red light and speed cameras in the city (citing statistics that the cameras "raise about $14 million annually for police" but do nothing to reduce traffic injuries), the police there targeted him in a sting operation, hoping to bust him on drunk driving charges.

    The police broke the law when they used a restricted database to obtain information on the journalist (who, much to the dismay of the police, had a clean record). The police were also unsuccessful in their attempt to bust the journalist.

    Link

    But this could never happen here, now could it?


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  • #2
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    damien.m wrote:
    But this could never happen here, now could it?

    Yeah you keep right on believing that ;)


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