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Swordsmyth
06-21-2018, 06:57 PM
On June 17, a new law went into effect in Michigan, effectively hamstringing the warrantless surveillance of residents of that state.
The Fourth Amendment Rights Protection Act (HB 4430) was signed into law on March 20 by state Governor Rick Snyder after being passed by both houses of the state legislature.
Specifically, the statute prohibits the “state and certain other governmental agents, employees, and entities in this state from assisting a federal agency in obtaining certain forms of data without a warrant; and to prohibit certain uses of certain data collected without a warrant.”
With certain listed exceptions — when warrants have been issued or the person has given consent — the new law mandates that neither the state nor its counties and cities may do anything which would “assist, participate with, or provide material support or resources to a federal agency to enable it to collect or to facilitate in the collection or use of a person’s electronic data or metadata.”

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/29329-michigan-refuses-to-fund-warrantless-surveillance-by-federal-government

TheCount
06-21-2018, 07:19 PM
Is it legal for Michigan to establish itself as a Surveillance Sanctuary State?

DamianTV
06-21-2018, 07:32 PM
Is it legal for Michigan to establish itself as a Surveillance Sanctuary State?

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Yup. As long as they dont cross state lines, they are well within their own jurisdiction to do so.

Swordsmyth
06-21-2018, 07:34 PM
Is it legal for Michigan to establish itself as a Surveillance Sanctuary State?
Is it Constitutional for the feds to engage in warantless surveillance?