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You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.
That's where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime.
Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.
It's called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them last month.
Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.
"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. "We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's some way that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."
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News 9 obtained a copy of the contract with the state.
It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @05:45PM
I've thought about it, but who's going to listen to a short, overweight dweeb without a wife, no kids, no luxury car, no house worth 7 figures?
Ballot box is busted as it is. Not saying I'd get elected if it weren't busted.
Thanks to the internet, the soap box is having a brief second wind.
Jury box was out of commission the moment that knowing about the inherent right of jury nullification became a reason to throw somebody out of the jury selection process.
There really does seem to be only one box left. It's just not quite the right time. As somebody else said, wait until we have enough pissed off rednecks.. wonder if they'll realize there are gays who are libertarian precisely because they knew they couldn't trust the government...