Virginia Tech officials claim that federal privacy statutes prevent them from releasing the medical records of the campus shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, to the Governor’s panel investigating the murder of 32 students.
The Open Records Project has argued since its inception that federal privacy statutes and the Supreme Court rulings that preceeded them are not only not […]
A WEB site now offers photos and names of purported confidential informants, undercover agents, and those who cut plea deals by testifying against others.
The defense bar loves the site, since it is their job to keep guilty parties out of jail. Prosecutors are not so happy. They claim that informants may be intimidated […]
I seriously doubt that the friends and families of those killed in violent attacks would believe that any of the following objections would hold water in light of their losses. Only those with no personal experience in a similar situation would genuinely believe such “Pollyanish” ideals could be real solutions in saving lives.
10. We […]
Rather than waiting for SWAT and the other paramilitary representatives to show up after the carnage is over, Americans need to re-learn and practice the self-reliance that made this nation great.
It looks like your buddy, Jim Schutz, already took his first shot.
—————————– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ————————–
From: Friends and Alumni of Virginia Tech
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Event Date: 10:00 AM, Saturday, May 5
Where: Blacksburg Recreation Center, 725 Patrick Henry Dr., Blacksburg, VA.
Subject: Safety Options for Education
“Duck […]
If you have a nose for criminal statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics can give you a snoot full in both PDF and spreadsheet form.
Topics covered include –
* crimes of violence (rape, gender sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with […]
Virginia Tech college student, Cho Seung-Hui had been judged mentally ill and a danger to himself and others yet his parents didn’t know. Virginia Tech was prevented from telling them by FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
FERPA was one of a series of “privacy” laws passed following Supreme Court Justice William […]
Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, had an apparently troubled past that was kept secret in the interest of his privacy. Whether or not disclosure of his troubled past might have prevented some or all of the 32 deaths is an unknowable question. The answer would seem to be that it might have. […]
Oakland Circuit Judge Wendy Potts sentenced Matthew Grundy and Jared Foote, both 17, to two years probation and ordered them to pay $23,000 in restitution Wednesday for their role in vandalism Dec. 20 that left dozens of schools buses with flat tires, forcing school officials to cancel classes for the day. The incident sparked a […]
A Waterford Township man arrested last month for operating under the influence of liquor and driving on a suspended/revoked license has eight prior suspensions and nine drunken driving convictions.
In any given year, about 300,000 of Michigan’s 7.2 million licensed drivers have their driving privileges suspended. Studies show that about 70 percent continue to drive anyway.
An […]