November 4, 2019
Category: Administrative notice

November 3, 2019
DAs exercise ‘frightening’ power, court says
The power of the district attorney general is great and he is invested with authority to pursue criminal cases at his discretion. In Hamilton County, DA Neal Pinkston prosecutes …

October 31, 2019
TN state law says traffic enforcement belongs to highway patrol
A major problem with the operation of extralegal government in Tennessee appears in the operation of the Tennessee highway patrol, whose duties are limited to commercial enforcement but whose …

October 28, 2019
Enforcement power limited to ‘public offense,’ police manual says
The Chattanooga police department claims authority to enforce the state”s freight, shipping, trucking and transportation law at Tenn. Code Ann. § Title 55 from two provisions in the code. …

October 24, 2019
City misuses arrest limits to create system of general warrants
Many cases in Hamilton County courts and those across the state should be dismissed on due process grounds because the officer arrested the accused person without a warrant in …

October 24, 2019
Notice project has potential to lead national police power reform
Police traffic stops to pursue the drug war and control the poor and minorities seem like an unstoppable program. They appear to be part of the American way, and …

October 24, 2019
3 reasons why CALEA should decertify Berke’s police department
Should CALEA certify agency that rejects state law, ignores own policy manual? Chattanooga police are operating in disregard of a primary rule enunciated by CALEA, that against biased policing …

October 20, 2019
Hammond-seized car lost in ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Deputy Gregory Carson puts citizen Jon Luman in manacles and an orange jumpsuit, seizes his car and prosecutes him under a misapplied law. Now that a judge has dismissed …