The "Civil Forfeiture'' laws are what you are discussing. Yes, traveling with large amounts of cash seems to make you the target of this especially when traveling long distances. It is a law designed to help reduce the drug trafficking by allowing law enforcement to capture suspected 'drug money' and use it to supplement the budget of local law enforcement. ... To many agencies are using it as a 'revenue enhancement tool' instead and not using it as the law was initially intended, especially since it is easier to find and acquire and you don't have to do any ugly things like take anyone to court or arrest them or marandize them. The are effectively 'arresting the money' or other assets, not the people carrying the assets.
Here in TN it has been a real problem and some laws are coming down to make it less 'profitable' for the agencies to use this law and to allow for easier and faster recourse for the property owners to sue to get the money/assets back. The way is its being described in the media is that if you are caught with large sums of money (in TN on I40, mainly going from East to West, since drugs tend to flow West to East), the money is arrested, not the people carrying it, because it is ASSUMED that large sums of money is ONLY used to purchase drugs. Some families on vacation, persons going to purchase show cars, etc seem to be the easy targets since many carry cash for this purpose. I could see folks going to purchase large machine tools or material could be caught in this fiasco as well. Locally there have been various expose's by TV anchors to get this stopped, or at least increase viewership. I guess it is working since legislation keeps coming up to stop this or at least curb the efforts. I do not know the current state of this legislation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
