Troopers violate court ‘notice’ rule in city roadblock

The Tennessee highway patrol is conducting a roadblock in Chattanooga Friday at East Brainerd Road at Morris Hill. But the department is refusing to obey a court ruling that requires published notice of the roadblock to reduce the “severity of the interference with personal liberty and privacy,” to use language from a 2001 supreme court opinion. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 The department of safety and homeland security did not put an ad in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, says Jim Stevens, the legal advertising rep; nor did it put an ad or a notice in the March 9 … Continue reading Troopers violate court ‘notice’ rule in city roadblock