Orange County Sheriff Spying on Board of Supervisors

[cousinkix1953]

County Supervisor Chris Norby was outraged at the large security presence rolled out at the Jan. 13 supervisors meeting by the Sheriff’s Department during a discussion about concealed weapons permits.

Today, he’s fuming after getting what he described as “a very odd and disturbing call from the Sheriff.”

Apparently, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens called to let Norby know that during the meeting, as a large contingent of deputies kept watch over activists and others, a deputy working a camera that monitors the boardroom started focusing on the supervisors desks. And panned over their notes. “For a minute, it focused on your personal papers on the dais,” is the message Hutchens delivered, Norby said.

Because someone has put in a public records request for tapes of the meeting, Hutchens was warning Norby that his desk materials and notes at the meeting would be in public soon.

“I wasn’t surprised,” Norbys said about the incident. ”Her department had set a tone that was not justified.”

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Give the secret police the power to encrypt even the most routine boring calls for service and eventually the GESTAPO will crave more power. Chris Norby helped to create this monster in Orange county. Now it bites him in the fanny. No other California sheriff is this paranoid. Neither is the CHP or even the feds.

 

[kd6ecz]

Give the secret police the power to encrypt even the most routine boring calls for service and eventually the GESTAPO will crave more power. Chris Norby helped to create this monster in Orange county. Now it bites him in the fanny. No other California sheriff is this paranoid. Neither is the CHP or even the feds.

I was just thinking the same thing as I read through your post. There is no reason at all to keep the public from listening to routine law enforcement radio traffic. Hell, I have heard time and time again about the "nosey scanner geek" who has helped local law enforcement aprehend the bad guys. Encrypting all radio traffic just makes me wonder what it is they are trying to hide or think they need to hide from the public.

 

[karldotcom]

That is what happens when you put a gungrabber in charge...

 

[cousinkix1953]

Didn't somebody tell us that full time encryption began after some hot shot sheriff's official's kid got busted for drug dealing a couple of years ago? I get the feeling that the county board of supervisors can put a stop to this secret police crap if they don't like being spied upon too.

I rarely encounter any kind of scrambling up north. Most of what I find are the potty mouthed commercial fishermen (operating outside f the 156-157 mhz marine band) using illegal modified 2 meter ham radios. Our local police department gave up the scramblers in the 70s. I used to have one of those kits that plugged into an external speaker jack. It used to sound a bit like tuning in a SSB transceiver...