The Ins and Outs of Warrantless Vehicle Searches (Part 1)
By Ted Levitt, NMA Member Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as an NMA Weekly E-Newsletter in 2014. Ted recently reviewed the information and informed the NMA that the post is still accurate and vital information for all drivers. If you would like to receive the NMA Weekly E-Newsletter, join the NMA today! If you’ve […]
New York City Police Use Pandemic to Create COVID-19 Checkpoints
By guest writer Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog A recent article in The New York Post revealed how the NYPD used the pandemic to justify creating COVID-19 checkpoints. “New York officials have stopped 353 cars at entrances to the Big Apple to warn travelers of the mandatory two-week quarantine rule. The stops were made from Wednesday through Friday at […]
Contact Tracing in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis
Written by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director with Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog The Street Surveillance Watch Blog comes to you biweekly on the National Motorists Association Blog. If you have comments or suggestions, write a comment after this blog or contact us at nma@motorists.org. Contact Tracing in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis Disturbing surveillance trends […]
Street Surveillance Watch Blog: Discussion on Surveillance during the Time of the COVID-19 Crisis
Written by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director with Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog Street Surveillance Watch Blog comes to you biweekly on the National Motorists Association Blog. We started this blog because the proliferation of street surveillance continues unabated and has a significant impact on the driving public. We will do our best to give you […]
Roadblocks and Checkpoints during the COVID-19 Crisis: Driving in America Blog for April 3, 2020
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director In my position as the NMA Communications Director, I skim or read hundreds of motoring news stories every day to bring you the news and to share trends and perspectives. Up until this week, I rarely ran across articles about checkpoints and roadblocks. The COVID-19 crisis is scary enough, […]
Traffic Stop 101: Stop and Identify Laws
By NMA Texas Member Ted Levitt I want to impart some information here about traffic stops, and before I do that, I want to tell a story about a traffic stop I saw recently on television. I will not get into the validity (or not) of the Sovereign Citizen Movement here, but I do know […]
Driving in America—Are We There Yet?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Motorist advocates have many choices to make when it comes to fighting for rights. Trends change and either becomes complicated or simplified just because an elected official says “Enough!” Case in point: Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed when he was running for governor in 2018 that he would like […]
A Car’s Black Box and a City’s ALPR Program Put to the Test in two Different Courts: NMA E-Newsletter #566
Two motorists recently won Fourth Amendment decisions. Both cases will likely be appealed, and will have major privacy rights implications for how and where we drive our vehicles. ALPRs in Florida Raul Mas Canosa was mad and decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. The city where he lives, Coral Gables, Florida, tracked his […]
Your Home is Your Castle . . . Until It Isn’t: NMA Newsletter #565
By Gary Biller, NMA President On a recent trip to Sacramento to walk the halls of the state capitol with Jay Beeber and engage legislative staffers on why an arbitrary lowering of speed limits in the name of Vision Zero is a colossally bad idea, I had the opportunity to have a nice dinner with […]
Motorists in Court—Latest Court Case Updates from Around the Country: NMA E-Newsletter #544
This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]