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What authority, expertise and bias do unlicensed people have to collect data?
How would you like I barge into your house and bust up your slab... you know because I suspect there might be something illegal buried under there?
Not only that, but I don't share my findings with you, and the prosecutor takes my word for it.
Read the comments
Reading Yahoo News comments always make me get up and lock the door.
One of the most troubling components of the law, according to Pidot, is that it specifically targets data collected to be shared with the government
The government makes a law that makes it illegal to report malfeasance or dangerous conditions to…….the government.
This must be what it looks like when a government loses all legitimacy.
They don't even trust themselves.
This move by the Wyo legislature doesn't surprise me a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-I2liaUsMLQ
"Get off my government land! "
I suspect the motive is mainly to prevent reporting coal ash, hog runoff, and other serious contamination. Big Ag has been pushing "ag-gag" rules to prohibit anybody disparaging their crap, and even Oprah got sued.
take the pictures..mail anonymously to thousands of news outlets via freebie mass emailer ( with identity protections in place of course ).
everyone winds up knowing...initiating the marches/protests...
its' an unenforceable law.
Wyoming Senate File 12:
"Passed by the Wyoming state government and signed into law by Gov. Matt "Meathead" Mead (R) in March, the law makes it illegal to “collect resource data†from any land outside of city boundaries, whether that land be private, public, or federal. Under to the law, “collect†means to “take a sample of material, acquire, gather, photograph or otherwise preserve information in any form from open land which is submitted or intended to be submitted to any agency of the state or federal government.â€"
"Under the statute, a citizen who uncovers an environmental disaster or public health threat — unless they’ve obtained specific permission from the landowner [which could be the state or federal government] before collecting that data — would themselves be breaking the law by reporting it to the authorities."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/13/3657795/wyoming-pollution-photography-jail-time/
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