MassPrivateI An interactive map of dangerous dogs may soon be available for citizens of Orange County, Calif., pinpointing exact locations of the county’s estimated 150 potentially dangerous or vicious dogs.
Dog owners will have their addresses and names appear on a public map labeling them as having a dangerous dog. (how long before police have maps of dangerous citizens/activists etc.?)
The proposed online map is intended to show residents in the 17 cities that use county animal services where some of the estimated 150 Orange County potentially dangerous and vicious dogs live. Dogs that live outside the 17 cities would not be included initially, but may be included later.
“Why would you even want a vicious dog?” asked Supervisor Todd Spitzer during a meeting in September, according to the Mercury News. “But assuming you do, the public has a right to know you have it.” (this argument is total B/S it’s another excuse to track you, just like newspapers publishing gun owners addresses click here.
The county code defines a “potentially dangerous” dog as one that has attacked or attempted to attack a human on two separate occasions during an 18–month period, while a “vicious” dog has seriously maimed or killed someone. Dog bites in Orange County have risen from 2, 281 in 2011 to 2,384 in 2012.
“We would like residents to know where those dogs are just as a public safety precaution,” Orange County Animal Care Director Ryan Drabek told NBC.
A similar map has been in use in Knox County, Tenn., since May 2013. Residents of the area can use the map to connect to links that display the dangerous canine’s picture, owner, address and related incident reports. The reason for labeling the dog as dangerous is also provided. Reasons range from biting a person to killing an animal.
For a Knox County level 1 offense, the dog is left on the map for 18 months. For a more serious level 2 offense, they are listed permanently. According to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, the map is intended to help keep people, pets and neighborhoods informed and safe.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., recently began publishing a map of dangerous dogs in the city. The information is provided by Minneapolis Animal Care and Control and St. Paul Animal Control. Lakewood, Ohio has a map of dangerous dogs, and their owners.
New York City has a dog map of its own, created by a local radio station, although it doesn’t distinguish between friendly and dangerous animals. The map lists the name, addresses and breeds of nearly 100,000 dogs using data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. It also illustrates the most popular dog breeds, as well as most popular names.
Think your information is private? Check out CrimeReports for more disturbing ‘CRIME’ maps.
http://www.govtech.com/data/Orange-County-Calif-May-Map-its-Dangerous-Dogs.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dogs-534379-dog-dangerous.html
Noam Chomsky: Fight back against government spying or be ‘complicit’
Now that the extent of the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs has been exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, it’s beholden on the public to fight back or else find themselves “complicit” in the activities, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and philosopher Noam Chomsky.
The freedoms U.S. citizens have “weren’t granted by gifts from above,” Chomsky said during a panel discussion Friday at MIT. “They were won by popular struggle.”
While U.S. officials have long cited national security as a rationale for domestic surveillance programs, that same argument has been used by the “most monstrous systems” in history, such as the Stasi secret police in the former East Germany, Chomsky said.
“The difference with the totalitarian states is the citizens couldn’t do a lot about it,” in contrast to the U.S., he added. “If we do not expose the plea of security and separate the parts that are valid from the parts that are not valid, then we are complicit.”
He cited the still-in-development Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which critics say could have far-reaching implications for Internet use and intellectual property. Wikileaks recently posted a draft of the treaty’s chapter on intellectual property.
Now that the information is out there, “we can do something about [the proposed TPP],” Chomsky said.
What’s needed for sure “is a serious debate about what the lines should be” when it comes to government surveillance, said investigative reporter Barton Gellman, who has received NSA document leaks from Snowden, leading to a series of stories this year in the Washington Post.
“Knowledge is power and it’s much easier to win if the other side doesn’t know there’s a game.”
“We can be confident that any system of power is going to try to use the best available technology to control and dominate and maximize their power,” Chomsky said. “We can also be confident … that they want to do it in secret.”
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2013/11/big-brothers-latest-excuse-to-spy-on_18.html