The Rhea County woman who ran against Congressman Zach Wamp last week has been arrested and charged with a felony. An incident report from the Dayton Police Department says June Griffin went into a Mexican market in downtown Dayton, shouted at the guy behind the counter and ripped down the Mexican flag.

Police arrested 67 year old Griffin. She was picked up after a Rhea County grand jury indicted her on charges of civil rights intimidation, harassment, theft of property and vandalism. Griffin told us she couldn’t meet for an interview today because she was picking up campaign signs in Polk County but she did comment on Talk Radio this morning.

Griffin told them “It’s an insult to my citizenship. I have no respect for anybody who comes in forcing us. You go anywhere and you hear this Spanish, nobody can understand, talk about the tower of Babel.” Civil rights violation is a felony charge. If convicted, Griffin could get 2 to 4 years in jail for that charge alone.

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A search referred to in subsection (a) is a search by a full-time teacher or school official, acting on any reasonable suspicion based on professional experience and judgment, of any minor student on the grounds of any public school, if the search is conducted to ensure that classrooms, school buildings, school property and students remain free from the threat of all weapons, dangerous materials, or illegal narcotics. The measures used to conduct any search must be reasonably related to the search’s objectives, without being excessively intrusive in light of the student’s age, sex, and the nature of the offense.

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The Daily Californian
Newly surfaced government surveillance reports reveal that the U.S. Department of Defense monitored anti-war and anti-military e-mails sent by UC Berkeley students in April.

The students’ e-mails contained plans to host a campus protest against the war in Iraq and against the presence of military recruiters on campus.

The reports, released on June 15 following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in January, contained information copied from an e-mail circulated by student group UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition regarding a protest planned for April 21, 2005 on Sproul Plaza.

SCI FI Tech
Montclair State University will soon be providing their students with more goodies than just textbooks and debt up to their eyeballs. Students enrolled at this New Jersey college will also receive a free cellphone. The premise behind this idea is to provide safety for students by allowing them to always have a way to call for help or even a DD. There is a bit of a catch, though. Each cellphone is equipped with a GPS tracking device so at any given time school administrators can pinpoint the exact location of a student.

Sure the GPS tracking is probably more for safety, but what happens when administrators see that you spent 20 of the past 24 hours at a strip club. What say ye’ commenters? Good for safety, or crossing the line of privacy?

The Dallas Morning News
A privacy battle is brewing over devices being installed in most new cars that record how drivers react in the seconds leading up to accidents.

Federal safety experts love the so-called black boxes because they can determine such things as whether drivers in a crash wore seat belts, exceeded the speed limit or accelerated when they should have braked.

But privacy groups, consumer advocates and lawmakers say most motorists have no idea that the black boxes are recording their movements.

“I am willing to bet that most members of Congress don’t know that there are black boxes in most new cars,” said Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass. Mr. Capuano is worried that the information will be misused and violate individual privacy rights.

“What’s next, a GPS [Global Positioning System] in my suit jacket?” he asked.

Fearing their wireless freedom may be in jeopardy, students at Framingham High School were fuming over a new school policy that allows administrators to seize cell phones and search their contents.

The policy, administrators say, is to improve security and stop the sale of drugs and stolen goods, but students said that the edict is an invasion of privacy.

Michael Hampton
The federal government wants to perform mental health screening on infants and get them started on drugs which they will take for their entire lives, if the drugs don’t kill them first. And you’re going to pay for it, whether you want to or not.

Already, children as young as 3, who wind up in the foster care system, are receiving psychiatric drugs for such disorders as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depression, with over 60% of foster children in Texas, nearly two-thirds in Massachusetts, and 55% of foster children in Florida on as many as 16 different psychiatric drugs.

Bloomberg
The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation’s largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.

Andrew Wolfe | Nashua Telegraph
A city man is charged with violating state wiretap laws by recording a detective on his home security camera, while the detective was investigating the man’s sons.

Michael Gannon, 49, of 26 Morgan St., was arrested Tuesday night, after he brought a video to the police station to try to file a complaint against Detective Andrew Karlis, according to Gannon’s wife, Janet Gannon, and police reports filed in Nashua District Court.

Associated Press | Wired News

WASHINGTON — The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program into law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.

Bush and senior officials in his administration have said they did not think changes were needed to empower the National Security Agency to eavesdrop — without court approval — on communications between people in the United States and overseas when terrorism is suspected.

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David Lazarus | San Francisco Chronicle
AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers’ personal data with government officials.

The new policy says that AT&T — not customers — owns customers’ confidential info and can use it “to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.”

The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service — something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.

AP
LEWISTON, Maine –A big change is in the works next winter in the hot lunch line at the Lisbon Community School. The elementary school, with an enrollment of more than 750, will be shifting to fingerprint identification technology — broadly known as biometrics — to track lunch orders and eliminate the need for meal cards or numeric codes.

James Renner | The Athens News

Last week, a fire ignited at the Akron Airdock that once housed a fleet of Goodyear blimps. Firemen rushed to the 211-foot-tall structure and quickly doused the flames. Reporters and photographers descended on the landmark. Many were surprised to learn the blimps were no longer being stored there.

Turns out Lockheed Martin — the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile — was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It’s being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you’re frightened of this administration’s habit of spying on American citizens, you may want to stop reading.