US Marshals Seize Police Stingray Records To Keep Them From the ACLU

An anonymous reader writes 'A routine request in Florida for public records regarding the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray took an extraordinary turn recently when federal authorities seized the documents before police could release them. "This is consistent with what we've seen around the country with federal agencies trying to meddle with public requests for stingray information," Wessler said, noting that federal authorities have in other cases invoked the Homeland Security Act to prevent the release of such records. "The feds are working very hard to block any release of this information to the public." ... "We've seen our fair share of federal government attempts to keep records about stingrays secret, but we've never seen an actual physical raid on state records in order to conceal them from public view," the ACLU wrote in a blog post today.'

Re:Ha!

[jc42]

Just another example of the "open administration"!

All Your Doors are Open to US.

Re:Hard copy?

[amxcoder]

I wonder if the Feds went all out like they do to us civilians when they performed the raid. Did they perform a typical 'no knock' raid, at like 3AM, and knock the doors in and smash the windows, and toss 'Flash Bangs' in the room and enter the premises with a small military unit in order to perform the records seizure?

That is how it's done with normal folks now days, for small stuff even.

Fucking Bush!

[Lord Kano]

That Haliburton, Enron, Koch Industries lackey!

If only this country would have elected a constitutional scholar, like Barack Obama...

Oh wait...

LK

Re:Obama's police state?

[dryeo]

" they figure it's about 7 years from rookie to bad cap"

Power corrupts...

And attracts the corruptible.