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Property as Life Lived, Not a Commodity
Private property is something you have become: years of labor, restraint, and moral agency you can never get back. Drawing on Locke, Blackstone, Madison, and the story of...
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But If You Aren’t Doing Anything Wrong
The "nothing to hide" defense of surveillance flips the Fourth Amendment on its head. In a free country, government must justify watching citizens, and citizens never have to...
Jerome County
Jerome County
There is a lesson in the story of Jerome County's Flock crisis
When Jerome County's sheriff used Flock cameras to track his wife hundreds of times, it exposed a darker truth about government surveillance. The real lesson isn't just about one...
Jerome County
How a Flock of Cameras Proved the Jerome Central Committee is as Dysfunctional as an Outhouse without a Hole
Surveillance cameras caught Jerome's Republican Central Committee conducting illegal closed-door sheriff interviews. A detailed legal analysis reveals how the committee violated...
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When the Doors Close: Jerome County’s Executive Session Problem
Jerome County commissioners closed doors for economic development discussions that should have been public, potentially violating Idaho's Open Meetings Law and the Supreme Court's...