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Casino officers detain man taking lewd pictures www.privateofficer.com
The casino’s security officers detained David Hiroshi Oda, 39, Monday night after witnesses spotted him aiming the recording device up the skirt of a woman standing in a buffet line, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested the Los Angeles County man, and the subsequent investigation revealed that Oda may have made similar Peeping Tom recordings in shopping malls in the Los Angeles area, the Sheriff’s Department said.
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Retired police Captain dies in crash www.privateofficer.com
Burgess, 58, died at the scene, at Lakeland and River Oaks drives in Flowood. The driver of the car, whose name was not released, was not harmed.
Burgess retired from the Pearl Police Department in 2001 and worked as security director for Southern Farm Bureau Insurance. He lived in Ridgeland with his wife of nearly 20 years, Gwen.
“He was a very careful and very experienced rider and would never do anything to endanger himself or anybody else,” Gwen Burgess said Wednesday, her voice shaky with emotion.
The accident happened around 6:30 p.m., according to Flowood police. Burgess was traveling east when the car turned in front of him, police said.
The accident is under investigation, Flowood Police Chief Johnny DeWitt said.
George Burgess joined Pearl police in 1974, a year after the agency formed. He was one of the first motorcycle patrol officers there, said Pearl police Lt. Butch Townsend, who worked with Burgess for 12 years.
Burgess worked his way up through the department and retired as second in command, Townsend said.
“He was just here visiting us not that long ago,” Townsend said.
Pearl Mayor Brad Rogers and his family were close to the Burgess family. Burgess was a “by-the-book” cop and always took an interest in other people, Rogers said.
“George always had time for anybody. He will be missed for sure,” Rogers said.
Burgess enjoyed cooking, deep-sea fishing, motorcycles, his family and reading, his wife said. “He was thoroughly enjoying his new job,” Gwen Burgess said.
Burgess also is survived by two sons, Marty and Jake.
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TSA names Kimberly Herrea Officer of the Year www.privateofficer.com
Herrera, who has been with the TSA for seven years, in 2008 launched an initiative that provided outdated TSA uniforms and jackets to homeless veterans in the Capital Region. She then assisted 30 other airports nationwide in starting similar programs.
“Kim’s work ethic, positive attitude and professionalism are exemplary,” said Brian Johansson, TSA’s federal security director at the Albany airport. “This award is very well deserved and TSA Albany is incredibly proud that one of our own officers is being recognized by TSA Headquarters for her contribution to this agency and Albany International Airport.”
Before joining TSA, Herrera served eight years in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Saudi Arabia, Bosnia and Afghanistan. She also earned a degree in business management from the University of Maryland (European division).
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New laws won’t allow clothes to dry on clotheslines www.privateofficer.com
Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.
Although there are no formal laws in this southeast Pennsylvania town against drying laundry outside, a town official called Froehlich to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping about.
“They said it made the place look like trailer trash,” she said, in her yard across the street from a row of neat, suburban houses. “They said they didn’t want to look at my ‘unmentionables.’”
Froehlich says she hangs her underwear inside. The effervescent 54-year-old is one of a growing number of Americans demanding the right to dry laundry on clotheslines despite local rules and a culture that frowns on it.
Their interests are represented by Project Laundry List, a group that argues people can save money and reduce carbon emissions by not using their electric or gas dryers, according to the group’s executive director, Alexander Lee.
Widespread adoption of clotheslines could significantly reduce U.S. energy consumption, argued Lee, who said dryer use accounts for about 6 percent of U.S. residential electricity use.
Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii have passed laws restricting the rights of local authorities to stop residents using clotheslines. Another five states are considering similar measures, said Lee, 35, a former lawyer who quit to run the non-profit group.
‘RIGHT TO HANG’
His principal opponents are the housing associations such as condominiums and townhouse communities that are home to an estimated 60 million Americans, or about 20 percent of the population. About half of those organizations have ‘no hanging’ rules, Lee said, and enforce them with fines.
Carl Weiner, a lawyer for about 50 homeowners associations in suburban Philadelphia, said the no-hanging rules are usually included by the communities’ developers along with regulations such as a ban on sheds or commercial vehicles.
The no-hanging rules are an aesthetic issue, Weiner said.
“The consensus in most communities is that people don’t want to see everybody else’s laundry.”
He said opposition to clotheslines may ease as more people understand it can save energy and reduce greenhouse gases.
“There is more awareness of impact on the environment,” he said. “I would not be surprised to see people questioning these restrictions.”
For Froehlich, the “right to hang” is the embodiment of the American tradition of freedom.
“If my husband has a right to have guns in the house, I have a right to hang laundry,” said Froehlich, who is writing a book on the subject.
Besides, it saves money. Line-drying laundry for a family of five saves $83 a month in electric bills, she said.
Kevin Firth, who owns a two-bedroom condominium in a Dublin, Pennsylvania housing association, said he was fined $100 by the association for putting up a clothesline in a common area.
“It made me angry and upset,” said Firth, a 27-year-old carpenter. “I like having the laundry drying in the sun. It’s something I have always done since I was a little kid.”
Judge rules TSA went to far in porn search www.privateofficer.com
HONOLULU HI Nov 19 2009 – A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday threw out all the evidence against a man caught with child pornography at Hilo Airport.
The judge ruled that screeners went too far in searching the man’s luggage.
In a ruling that could affect the way the Transportation Security Administration screens luggage. The evidence thrown out on Tuesday included video of the suspect having sex with at least three young boys, prosecutors said.
”You have to let that person off because his rights were violated,” defense attorney William Harrison said.
Harrison represented Simon Jasper McCarty, 37, whom prosecutors said had hundreds of child porn items in his luggage, including videos of his encounters with boys.
Judge J. Michael Seabright ruled that the airport screening that caught McCarty was improper.
While going through McCarty’s luggage the screener said some suspicious photos fell out on the table. She then called over another screener, who happened to be her daughter. The judge said that was wrong. To make it worse, the screener could not remember later what they would seen in the first place to make them suspicious.
The law does allow screeners to report illegal contraband, but only if it is in plain sight while they look for weapons or bombs.
The judge wrote, “that the screeners did not confine their search as required and instead began their own criminal investigation into the nature of the photographs.”
”Once she had determined there was no safety factors in the items in the luggage she had no right to go beyond that and violate my client’s right to privacy,” Harrison said.
