{"id":15704,"date":"2015-02-04T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15704"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:47:49","slug":"watchdog-org-sneak-and-peek-bill-rolls-quietly-through-virgnia-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15704","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog.org: \u2018Sneak and peek\u2019 bill rolls quietly through [Virginia] General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog.org: <a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/197382\/sneak-peek-virginia\/\">\u2018Sneak and peek\u2019 bill rolls quietly through [Virginia] General Assembly<\/a> by Kenric Ward:<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Jennifer Wexton wants to endow Virginia law-enforcement agencies with Patriot Act powers<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Virginia lawmakers want to give local and state authorities the same sweeping search-and-seizure powers used by the FBI and other federal agencies under the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 919, by state Sen. Jennifer Wexton, D-Leesburg, passed 39-1 last month. A similar measure, House Bill 1946 by Delegate Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, awaits action.<\/p>\n<p>The bills allow for \u201cadministrative subpoenas,\u201d or what Virginia civil libertarian John Whitehead calls \u201csneak-and-peek searches.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog.org: \u2018Sneak and peek\u2019 bill rolls quietly through [Virginia] General Assembly by Kenric Ward: State Sen. Jennifer Wexton wants to endow Virginia law-enforcement agencies with Patriot Act powers RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Virginia lawmakers want to give local and state authorities &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}