{"id":3466,"date":"2010-03-20T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T16:44:04","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3466","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Fourth Amendment news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ACLU of No. CA sues over DNA sampling on arrest in CA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ACLU of Northern California has sued over the constitutionality of California&#8217;s 2004 Proposition 69 mandating DNA sampling of certain arrestees which went into effect on January 1, 2009. See <a href=\"http:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2009\/10\/dna-profiling-you-may-be-next\/\">DNA Profiling: You May Be Next<\/a>, by Patrick Kollman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Proposition 69, passed in 2004, made California one of now 21 states that require DNA sampling for some arrestees. This voter-approved initiative mandated that this extend to all felony arrestees by Jan. 1, 2009\u2014and the legal backlash has already begun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Chicago Traffic Aide arrested for ticketing a cop car gets $1.553M verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Chicago Sun-Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/1842507,traffic-aide-award-jury-arrest-102309.article\">Traffic aide awarded more than $1 million in arrest for ticketing cop&#8217;s car<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A city employee was awarded more than $1 million by a jury Friday in a wrongful arrest and conspiracy case stemming from a 2006 arrest in which she refused to rescind a parking ticket issued on a police officer&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday a jury found in favor of Jacqueline Fegan and awarded her $1.553 million in damages, according to a release from the law office of Tobin, Petkus &amp; Munoz. With court costs and legal fees, the decision could end up being more than $2 million.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t even ticket the car&#8211;she refused to rescind a ticket issued by a subordinate. Sounds like a really pissed off jury. I can just see the closing argument about the abuse of power for arresting a city employee for contempt of cop for refusing to be bullied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}