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MN Legislature Introduces Amendment to Protect Electronic Communication

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 18 2015, @09:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-state-at-a-time dept.

Kromagv0 writes:

The Minnesota legislature has introduced an amendment to the MN Constitution to enshrine the protections afforded by the 4th amendment to electronic communication and data as well. It appears that this amendment has broad diverse support in the state house but leadership in the state senate is only lukewarm on it. In the senate Ron Latz (DFL) Chairman of the Judiciary Committee had blocked the amendment stating that he feels it is redundant. Additionally Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (DFL) opposes the amendment because it is an amendment to the MN constitution. If passed, Minnesota would become only the second state to enact such a change — Missouri enacted its amendment last year with 75% of the popular vote.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday February 19 2015, @02:51AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Thursday February 19 2015, @02:51AM (#146819) Homepage Journal

    I'm all for the 4th amendment, but repeating it at the state level is largely a pointless exercise.

    Unless you live in Minnesota, no? I don't and I wish my state would enact something similar.

    Also, it's useful as a tool to shame those corrupt jackasses in Washington, DC.

    Just sayin'.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @10:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @10:45PM (#147151)

    The 21st Amendment to the US Constitution repealed the 19th (Prohibition).
    It was the ONLY time a constitutional amendment was passed by state constitutional conventions.
    (By that time, a bunch of state|county|city governments had already stopped tasking their cops with enforcing that law.)

    If enough states show their absolute support for this notion, it could become a new amendment to the federal Constitution.
    (There's a 7-year window where 75 percent of the states have to ratify it.)

    -- gewg_