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As Hurricane Irma's destructive path nears Florida, a sheriff is warning sex offenders to beware of officers checking IDs at shelters. But now people are worried the rules will also affect others with outstanding warrants.
[...] "If you go to a shelter for #Irma, be advised: sworn LEOs will be at every shelter, checking IDs. Sex offenders/predators will not be allowed."
The sheriff explained the tweet further by writing on top of it, "If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail."
[...] RT America contacted the sheriff's office, and was told a public information officer would call back with further information.
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Source: Florida sheriff offers jail as 'secure shelter' for those with warrants fleeing Hurricane Irma
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Sunday September 10 2017, @02:32PM (2 children)
I took this as the police not wanting to get sued for entrapment later
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Geezer on Sunday September 10 2017, @02:55PM (1 child)
IANAL, but I don't think you can entrap someone already under a warrant. The execution of a warrant is due process. Entrapment is not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @04:12PM
IANAL as well.
You absolutely can "entrap" person under a warrant. Entrapment and warrants are orthogonal things.
I think both the parent and grandparent are confused about what Entrapment [wikipedia.org]. Entrapment is more than just catching a person, or even tricking a person. Entrapment is the state forcing a person to commit a crime. Among other things this "traps" a person, in that they either are breaking the law by failure to comply with a lawful order, or they are are breaking the law by following that order. This was form of law was created to prevent a judge or somebody else being able to target somebody they didn't like and guarantee being able to put them in jail.
As a simple example, imagine there was a warrant against an Apple employee demanding that they hack into another person's iPhone for reasons. This would be entrapment, as that employee would either be breaking the law by hacking into the phone (and could be arrested for hacking), or they would be breaking the law by violating the warrant (and could be arrested for obstruction of justice).
Note: In the "real world," this example of entrapment is avoided by somehow authorizing the Apple employee to hack the iPhone, such as having the laws against hacking providing an exemption when it is done for or by the state. Therefore the action of hacking is no longer illegal, and thus this is not entrapment.