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Many months ago the Sunnyvale PD illegally search a Sunnyvale resident, violating his fourth amendment rights to be secure in his persons, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. Sunnyvale PD said piss on that we’re searching him, I mean he’s armed, he must be up to no good.
I wanted to know what SPD knew about open carry up to that point. So I invoked California Gov. Code, § 6253 (California Public Record Act). It’s California’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act).
Here’s what turned up. Part1 Part2
What I’ve learned from these documents (you may find more):
1. It seems SPD has a collaborative effort to stifle open carry activities.
2. They know it’s legal so they’re spending time finding ways to arrest for other things. (guilty before proven innocent)
3.SPD actively monitors opencarryradio.com, my youtube channel, and OCDO
4. They are informing neighboring departments when we have meet ups their.
5. They desperately want to arrest us for “failure to ID” (as if that’s a real thing). They know PC148.9 is bullshit, so they look for other tactics.
6. SPD wants to start a “Public Information Component” to educate the public on Open Carry. (Ministry of Truth?)
7. An off duty officer has called 911 on open carriers in Sunnyvale.
8.SPD is building a GIS maps database of school zones.
Did I miss anything? Leave it in the comments section.
question: how can we, the public, gain access to these “maverick maps”? seems they’re holding all the cards there. somewhere in part 1 it mentions it is upto the discretion of the situation that will call for either a felony or misdemeanor arrest for carrying within 1000′. so basically, reasonable knowledge dont mean shyte.
comment: seems like they (leo’s) are more about figuring out ways “to get you” rather than learning the law they are charged with upholding.