New Air Security Rules Hit Private Jets

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is holding a meeting today to discuss a proposed security plan from the Department of Homeland Security to extend to private aviation many of the same passenger security rules and inconveniences imposed on commercial airlines, the New York Times reports. The proposal, which could affect up to 10,000 private air [...]

Preliminary Hearing for San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Heverly is Postponed

I made a 100-mile trek to Indio this morning to catch the preliminary hearing for Richard Heverly, the San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy accused of holding a gun to a man’s head and threatening to kill him during an apparent road-rage incident. The preliminary hearing, which would have included testimony from a CHP officer and [...]

Some People Still Respond to Cops

BART Police Execute Unarmed, Restrained Man with Shot to the Back

NARA Cannot Assure Complete Transfer of Bush Records

The impending transfer of Bush Administration records to the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will challenge the capacity of the Archives to absorb them because of their enormous volume and the diverse formats of various electronic records. But there is also a fundamental question concerning the integrity of the transfer process, [...]

Civil rights suit filed in police killing

The parents of a former Moreno Valley resident who was shot and killed by an Anaheim police officer in October have filed a federal lawsuit against that city claiming that their son was a victim of police negligence and racial prejudice. The Civil Rights Violations complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana [...]