Investigators were apparently conducting aerial sweeps of the area to look for cannabis plants and mistook Perry’s okra garden for a marijuana grow operation. [So, here we have the government doing flybys, just looking for criminals where there are none, to justify their budgets, but clearly show their incompetence.] However, the innocent retiree worries that his reputation in the community might have been affected. Perry, who lives in Cartersville, says he has been receiving constant calls from friends and neighbors asking why such an overwhelming police presence conducted a raid on his home. In the 1989 case Florida v Riley, the US Supreme Court ruled that police do not need to obtain a warrant or probable cause before conducting random helicopter flyovers above private property to search for marijuana. As police departments across the country begin acquiring unmanned surveillance drones with the capability to capture images in much greater detail than what would be possible with the naked eye, new questions are being raised as to what homeowners should consider a reasonable expectation of privacy. Governor Jerry Brown recently vetoed a bill that would have required officers to obtain a warrant before using a drone to spy on a homeowner’s property. [So, Brown favors cops NOT using warrants!] benswann/ga-man-suffers-armed-raid-after-cops-confuse-okra-for-pot/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=nl
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:38:44 +0000
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