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Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU (www.aclu.org)

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 16 points 1 day ago

Perhaps most ominously, when issuing the BOLO the chief declared “This is MYOC,” meaning “make your own case” — which in turn meant essentially, “there is no arrest warrant for him so look for any reason to stop him” and, as the deputy police chief at the time put it, “You need to build your own probable cause, your own reasonable suspicion.” As my ACLU colleague and head of the Kansas ACLU Micah Kubic put it, issuing a BOLO on someone for putting up posters is “both a rejection of the First Amendment, and a really ridiculous misuse of resources.”