Tag: jail
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Phone and Text Scams are on the Rise
Phone and Text Scams are on the Rise Vishing (or voice phishing) is the criminal practice of using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. Simply put, criminals try to trick unsuspecting individuals into providing their personal information…
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Posting Bail on a Warrant
Not many people get up in the morning and think how great an arrest warrant issued for them would make their day. Few people plan to be arrested or want to have an warrant for them, but it happens to regular law abiding people everyday of every year. If a warrant has been issued…
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Android Apps Cause Law Trouble
4 Android Apps That Could Land You In Trouble With The Law Just because something looks good on the outside doesn’t mean you can’t turn around and do something bad with it. When you download an app you probably don’t consider the fact it could land you in hot water with the police. You just…
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Photo App Teaches you Perception
Cucalu, an iPhone game designed to get people looking at their environment with fresh eyes, gets its name from the Dutch word “koekeloeren,” which means “to look around.” CUCALU When Dutch artist Daniel Disselkoen returned from trips to the United States and Japan, he viewed Amsterdam’s familiar streets with renewed affection and resolved to preserve…
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California license plate trackers
If you’ve been behind the wheel lately, odds are your trip has been tracked by small cameras called “automated license plate readers.” They’re often mounted on law enforcement vehicles and street poles, and used by police to catch criminals. But in California, lawmakers are debating whether this technology needs restrictions to protect privacy. High-tech cameras…
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Jails Stop ICE Holds – Bad for Bail
A federal judge in Oregon recently ruled a detention facility had violated a woman’s constitutional rights by holding her past her release date for no other reason than her immigration status. That, according to sources, is the reason more and more California jails are veering away from the 48-hour ICE holds. They’re afraid honoring…
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Stupid laws are so problematic
Imagine this: two defendants, same age, smoke a joint with some friends one July evening in their respective apartments. Neither has a criminal record. Both get caught; one faces an extra two years in jail. Why? Because he shared drugs within a certain number of feet from a school that’s been out for a month.…
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Wanted Felon Caught by Vista Deputies
A wanted felon is in custody after leading sheriff’s deputies on a wild chase in Vista. Deputies were trying to arrest 42-year-old Julio Cruz on an outstanding warrant Wednesday afternoon but he had other plans and couldn’t stay still and talk to the Deputies. Because Mr. Cruz watched to many TV Cop shows, he just…
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Man Held For Coco Fire Looting
Brandon Gunn, a 29 year old with an outstanding warrant for theft was arrested and booked at the Vista Jail on Thursday, May 15, 2014. He was arrested and held on $75,000 bail after the Sheriff found him sitting in his car parked in front of a home he had no business being around in…
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Big Brother is not who you think.
Big Brother is in the news a lot. Sometimes he appears as the National Security Agency, collecting massive amounts of communications data and “listening in on phone calls.” At other times, he takes shape as a corporate giant like Google or Facebook, quietly collecting everything that you put on the Internet and doing who-knows-what with…