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Telegraph.co.uk Chasing legal highs a waste of police timeTelegraph.co.ukPlans to ban “legal high” drugs are doomed to failure, police chiefs have warned the Government. The Home Office insist that legal highs must be banned in order to protect people from the unknown effects. Photo: Alamy The Association of Chief Police …What's a Legal High?Huffington Post [...]

Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine ToolNew York TimesWASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has grown into a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials as well, with hundreds of departments, large and small, …and more » View full post on law – [...]

USA TODAY Police: Blind Driver's Trip in Google's Self-Driving Car Was LegalPC MagazineBy Mark Hachman Google's video showing a blind man taking a ride to a Taco Bell in a self-driving car was legal, according to Google and the police department which monitored the test. In the video (embedded below), Google's self-driving car takes …Blind [...]

Eagle 99.3 FM WSCH New law allows Hoosiers to sometimes resist policenwitimes.comMitch Daniels has signed a law explicitly authorizing Hoosiers to physically resist police if officers are breaking the law. Senate Enrolled Act 1, approved by the Republican governor late Tuesday night, permits a person to use reasonable force against …Another State Death Tax Kicks [...]

USA TODAY Police step up social media efforts amid confusing lawUSA TODAYBut the issue of properly handling social-media content is also igniting heated debates about privacy and the limits of the current law that spells out how police can legally retrieve personal data. Adding to the confusion is the reality that rules and … View [...]

Berkeley hires law firm to conduct probe of police chief who sent officer to …Washington PostBerkeley officials have hired a law firm to investigate an order by the city's police chief that sent an officer to a reporter's home after midnight to request changes in a story. Interim City Manager Christine Daniel said Friday that [...]

Bowing to complaints, China on paper restricts police power to secretly detain …Washington PostThe formal introduction of the revised criminal procedure law to the national legislature ends a half-year of speculation and debate about whether the Communist government would give police the legal authority to do something they have long done …and more » View full [...]

FOXSports.com Scottsdale police: Rockies pitcher was at twice legal limitAZ Central.com6, 2012 10:12 AM Colorado Rockies pitcher Alex White had a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit at the time he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol Saturday night, Scottsdale police said.Rockies P may be charged with [...]

Telegraph.co.uk 'Clare's Law' is little help if the police don't perform their basic dutyThe GuardianThe Home Office has announced it will pilot a new domestic violence disclosure scheme known as "Clare's Law". The campaign for this scheme was spearheaded by Michael Brown, the brave father of Clare Wood, who was brutally murdered by a man [...]

89.3 KPCC UC Davis pepper spray report delayed as police union threatens legal actionSacramento BeeBy Sam Stanton Facing threat of legal action by the union for University of California, Davis, campus police, officials scrapped plans to release a report today on the November pepper spraying of students and protesters in the UC Davis quad.UC Davis [...]