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On November 8, the Mineral County Sheriffs Office (MCSO), Mineral County School District (MCSD), and Mineral County District Attorneys Office sent out a joint press release responding to recent security events happening at the junior high and high schools.

Firearm ammunition was found in a classroom, causing the police to place the schools on a lockout as they searched lockers, students, and vehicles for any related contraband. During the search, the MCSO found two knives (one found in a car and another on a person) as well as multiple vape pens and a handgun. The handgun was in a car that was borrowed from a family member, and the adult owner of the vehicle was booked on a possession of a dangerous weapon on school property charge and released on a $1,140 bond.

The mother of that student said that her son didnt know the gun was in the car and its frustrating because the bullying problem is still out there. The focus is still on a kid that made an honest mistake, she says, while the bullying problem is still a big issue. She mentions that he has never gotten in trouble and is devastated at facing possible expulsion as well as damaging future job prospects.

Following the incidents, the MCSO, MCSD, and MC District Attorneys Office have implemented a zero-tolerance policy.

Effective immediately, all Sheriffs Office personnel responding to incidents of violence, weapons, or allegations of any violent or weapons-related activity at Mineral County schools, events, properties, or incidents involving juveniles will conduct proactive criminal investigations and pursue criminal charges to the fullest extent of the law, the joint statement reads. The Mineral County District Attorney will file criminal charges for any violent or weapons-related offenses and seek appropriate dispositions that educate, inform, but most importantly protect residents of Mineral County, and especially our youth, from violence, it further states.

Pursuant to NRS 202.265, a weapon on school property is a gross misdemeanor, subject to 364 days in jail, a fine of up to $2,000, or a combination of both, MC District Attorney T. Jaren Stanton later said.

The MCSO will now be conducting additional proactive patrols and walk-throughs before school, at lunchtime, and after school throughout the rest of the school year to enact the policy.

Prior to the November 8 lockout, Mineral County Sheriff Bill Ferguson says that over the years the school district, sheriffs office, and POOL/PACT (Nevada Public Agency Insurance Pool/Public Agency Compensation Trust) have developed plans for the safety of school students and staff in an event that a threat becomes present on campus(es).

We have a presence but unfortunately the whole nation is undermanned when it comes to law enforcement available, Sheriff Ferguson says.

The school lockout was prompted due to the police being called out to a stabbing incident between two juveniles at Lions Park a couple of nights before. A witness on scene told the police that one of the juveniles had a gun. It even goes back farther than that as three weeks ago, an altercation happened at a Hawthorne residence involving the same kids, which resulted with the mother of one of the kids chasing them down the street. One of those juveniles showed up to anothers workplace and threatened him, which led to the stabbing incident at Lions Park.

[The lockout] was the totality of circumstances that led us to where we were at, Ferguson added.

There has also been some talk about protecting students Fourth Amendment rights regarding unreasonable searches and seizures. The U.S. Fourth Amendment specifically reads: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

To this, Ferguson refers to the landmark case of New Jersey v. T.L.O. in which the US Supreme Court established a set of standards about public school officials being able to search students in a school environment without a warrant.

Sheriff Ferguson said that they are leaving it up to the school for how to reprimand the students who were caught with contraband considering they know them better, however, MCSD Superintendent Stephanie Kuehey could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.

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In November 2020, 45-year-old Elisabeth Rehn was preparing for a bath when five Seattle police officers broke down her door and streamed into her apartment. She barely had time to throw a coat over herself when she was stormed by the officers, who shouted commands and pointed their guns at her.

However, the officers had no reason to enter Rehn's apartment. According to a lawsuit filed last month, the police had gone to the wrong address. They weren't even in the correct building.

"Even after [police] knew or should have known that they had broken down the door of the wrong apartment, in the wrong building, the Defendants still continued to needlessly search her apartment while Ms. Rehn trembled in fear," the complaint states.

According to The Seattle Times, the officers believed they were responding to a "crisis call" about an intoxicated man who may have been attempting to push someone out of a window. While other first responders were able to reach the correct address, a second group of officers ended up in a different apartment building, where they mistakenly stormed Rehn's apartment.

Body camera footage shows the officers kicking Rehn's door in and rushing into her apartment with guns drawn. The officers are also captured searching through her apartment while Rehn sobs and trembles in fear.

The officers' "actions put Ms. Rehn in mortal fear that she was going to be assaulted or killed in this incident through no fault of her own," reads the complaint. "She was about to take a bath in her own apartment at the time, had disrobed in preparation for getting into her bath and barely had time to throw on a large coat to cover herself before the Defendant officers who entered her apartment shouted commands at her and trained one or more firearms on her."

Rehn's lawsuit argues that the officers' forced entry into her home violated her Fourth Amendment rights and subjected her to "substantial mental and emotional distress, fear for her physical well-being, invasion of privacy, loss of privacy, and other related damages."

This is far from the first time that police have mistakenly stormed into the wrong address. Cops frequently invade homes without properly checking they have the right address, leading to damaged property and terrified residents. Further, tragedy has occurred countless times when police officers have raided the wrong house and ultimately killed an innocent person living there.

While the exact scale of the problem is unclear, between 2017 and 2020, Chicago police alone raided at least 21 wrong addresses. And unfortunately, as is true with most instances of police violence, officers who kill or injure innocent homeowners when they invade the wrong address are usually protected by qualified immunity.

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Ron Wyden U.S. Senator from Oregon

Ronald Lee Wyden was born in May 1949 in Wichita, Kansas. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a basketball scholarship, and later transferred to Stanford University where he received his undergraduate degree.He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon School of Law.

While teaching gerontology at several Oregon universities, Wyden founded the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers. He was also director of the Oregon Legal Services Center for the Elderly and served on the Oregon State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators.

He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served 15 years until being elected in a special election to the United States Senate. He assumed office in February 1996.

He is divorced from Laurie with whom he has two adult children and is now married to Nancy and they have three children. Wyden is Jewish.

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A bill to reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would afford new protections for constitutional rights has been introduced in Congress by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Representative Zoe Lofgren of California.

At present, Section 702 allows only for the individualized and limited surveillance of non-U.S. persons who are reasonably believed to be located outside the United States and who are assessed by the intelligence community to possess or communicate specific types of foreign intelligence information identified by the attorney general and the director of national intelligence.

Surveillance law has not kept up with changing times, Senator Wyden said, adding, Our bill continues to give government agencies broad authority to collect information on threats at home and abroad, including the ability to act quickly in emergencies and settle up with the court later.But it creates much stronger protections for the privacy of law-abiding Americans, and restores the warrant protections that are at the heart of the Fourth Amendment.

The FISA Court and the Director of National Intelligence have confirmed that our government conducted warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans private communications,Senator Lee said.It is imperative that Congress enact real reforms to protect our civil liberties, including warrant requirements and statutory penalties for privacy violations, in exchange for reauthorizing Section 702. Our bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act stops illegal government spying and restores the Constitutional rights of all Americans.

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Bill Maher used Friday nights New Rules segment as an opportunity to offer a sweeping condemnation of political and intellectual attacks against Western civilization amid political protests related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

To the current crop who reduce everything to being only victims or victimizers, so its really as lumped in as the toxic fruit of the victimizing West. The irony being that all marginalized people live better today because of Western ideals, not in spite of them, he said in part.

Maher began, For all the progressives and academics who refer to Israel as an outpost of Western civilization like its a bad thing, please note Western civilization is what gave the world pretty much every god-n liberal precept that liberals are supposed to adore.

The host then listed individual liberties, scientific inquiry, rule of law, religious freedom, womens rights, human rights, democracy, trial by jury freedom of speech as credits to the West before he added, Please, somebody stop us before we become enlightened again.

He also insisted that the world would be a better place if we had more Israels.

Of course, Maher continued, this message falls on deaf ears to the current crop who reduce everything to being only victims or victimizers, so its really as lumped in as the toxic fruit of the victimizing West. The irony being that all marginalized people live better today because of Western ideals, not in spite of them.

The host then cited several examples to support his point, including that Martin Luther King used Henry David Thoreaus essay civil disobedience to help shape the civil rights movement and the cop who murdered George Floyd got 21 years for violating his Fourth Amendment rights an idea we got directly from John Locke.

King often said Thoreaus 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience inspired him as a college student, and he certainly believed in the principles of justice and peace. But after Amy Schumer tweeted a video of King in which he spoke in support of Israel, Bernice King clarified how she believes her father would have responded to the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

She replied, Certainly, my father was against antisemitism, as am I. He also believed militarism (along with racism and poverty) to be among the interconnected Triple Evils. I am certain he would call for Israels bombing of Palestinians to cease, for hostages to be released

In conclusion, Maher said, the woke are simple. He added, Its never about ideas. If it was would they be cheering on Hamas for their liberation, liberation to do what more freely preside over a country where there are no laws against sexual harassment, spousal rape, domestic violence, homophobia? honor killings or child marriage? This is who liberals think you should stand with.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee Tuesday he opposes a proposal to require the government to get a warrant before searching through foreign surveillance data for information on Americans.

Privacy advocates and some lawmakers have raised the possibility of adding such a requirement as Congress considers the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The authority expires at the end of the year and has been the subject of heated debate on Capitol Hill.

Section 702 allows the U.S. government to collect the digital communications of foreigners who are located outside the country. But some lawmakers from both parties have lambasted the breadth of the surveillance power and zeroed in on privacy concerns, such as how it allows U.S. authorities to run warrantless searches for information on Americans.

Wray on Tuesday urged the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to reauthorize the foreign surveillance authority but leave out changes that he said could hamper the FBIs ability to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

With everything going on in the world, imagine if a foreign terrorist overseas directs an operative to carry out an attack here on our own backyard, but were not able to disrupt it because the FBIs authorities have been so watered down, Wray told lawmakers.

In written testimony to the panel, Wray said a warrant requirement would amount to a de facto ban on a U.S. person query of information previously obtained through use of Section 702.

Thats because search applications would not satisfy the legal standard to get court approval, Wray wrote. When the standard could be met, it would mean the use of scarce resources and take up significant time that the government often does not have in a world of evolving threats, he wrote.

Sen. Rand Paul, the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, said Tuesday that the FBI continues to misuse its Section 702 authority.

You would think wed be going after foreigners, but we are using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to go after Americans, Paul said.

An independent U.S. government board weeks ago recommended that Congress add greater oversight for when authorities want to search for information on Americans. The board said authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, should be required for those types of searches.

The FISC itself has found persistent and widespread compliance problems with the FBIs searches under Section 702. A court opinion released earlier this year found that the FBI had improperly searched foreign surveillance information using the last names of a U.S. senator and a state-level politician.

While the specifics remain unclear, requiring a warrant or court order when searching for information about Americans could become a sticking point as the authoritys end-of-year expiration date approaches.

The leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary committees both have spoken critically about the current program.

Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., has pledged to only support Section 702 reauthorization if there are significant reforms, which he said means first and foremost, addressing the warrantless surveillance of Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Also at Tuesdays hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas endorsed the renewal of Section 702 and said letting the authority expire would leave our country vulnerable to attacks supported by American citizens.

And it would cripple our ability to identify and secure American citizens who are the targets of such attacks, he told lawmakers.

A third official appearing before lawmakers, Christine Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Section 702 provides key indications on terrorist plans and gives authorities strategic insight into foreign terrorists and their networks overseas.

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