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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
The "report your neighbor for a crime" part of the act is not uncosntitutional so long as it doesn't *require* such (1st Amendment - freedom of speech and freedom of association, 4th,5th,10th,11th,14th Amendments - right to privacy penumbra). Encouragement is allowed - in Charlotte, NC, the state ran "report your drug dealer neighbor" billboards that were somewhat successful.
It's the other parts of it that are problematic. I thought about posting this exception in my first reply - guess I should have. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]
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Thanks Timber Loftis, I figured it had to be more to it then the "report your neighbor" stuff, after all a report is not the same as a conviction. I take it from some of your posts you're a lawyer? About all I've heard on the act is from the news and they've mostly focused on the "report your neighbor" part.
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