Glen Morgan at the Freedom Foundation posted an update on the home detention policies of Washington State. This has local relevance because it was a Whatcom County resident who noticed that it was trivial for criminals to remove location tracking hardware in order to move about freely when in fact they were under home detention for failing to exercise their rights responsibly (i.e., they broke the law, and infringed on others' rights). And the authorities were either clueless or careless.
Thanks to Representative Shea, Goodman, and the other legislators on the Public Safety Committee, Scott Roberts and I yesterday were able to present some of the information we had uncovered last year (thanks to a Whatcom County whistleblower) in regards to the total failure of electronic home monitoring in Washington State to protect citizens. Not my policy area, but exposing the truth is what we do...
King 5 reports,
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