Judge Orders Hawaii Officials to Appear @ Hearing over Obama Birth Certificate

California attorney Orly Taitz today secured an order from United States District Court Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi demanding representatives of the Hawaii Department of Health appear in federal court Sept. 14 to show why Taitz should be prevented from seeing whatever original 1961 documents the agency has on record regarding Barack Obama’s birth.

Taitz returned to federal court in Honolulu today after Hawaii DOH officials presented her with a letter refusing to comply with her subpoena on grounds that Hawaii privacy laws prevented officials from releasing Obama birth records to the public.

“It’s ridiculous,” Taitz told WND.

She had argued previously – without getting a response from the state – that Obama had waived all privacy rights by releasing his long-form birth certificate to the American public at a White House press conference April 27.

The ExParte Emergency Motion for Order to Show Cause and to Compel Attendance for Production of Documents that Taitz filed with the federal magistrate asked the court to demand Hawaii DOH head Loretta Fuddy appear in court to explain why she would not comply with the subpoena.

“Getting a federal judge to demand Fuddy’s attendance at a show-cause hearing is a victory,” Taitz said. “I will return to Hawaii on Sept. 14 and I expect then to be able to force the Hawaii DOH to turn over the relevant records as demanded by the subpoena.”
Read more: Court tells Hawaii officials to explain Obama’s birth records http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=331517#ixzz1UjGxIQ29

Schools, Laptops, and Privacy

     As noted on an earlier post, a high school in Pennsylvania has the capability of turning on the webcams on the laptops that the school has issued to their students. While the school has said that they have only turned on the webcams remotely about 40 times, when a laptop has been reported missing, the practice came to light when an administrator approached a student about the fact that it apperaed he was “selling drugs” from his bedroom. (Mike and Ike candies were the actual culprit).

      Police need search warrants to enter our homes, but the school board does not?

      What are yourr thoughts?

PA School Uses “School-Issued” Laptop Webcams to “Spy” on Students……@ Home

 

http://americasright.com/?p=3159

 

“On November 11, 2009, Plaintiffs were for the first time informed of the above-mentioned capability and practice by the School District when Lindy Matsko, an Assistant Principal at Harriton High School, informed minor Plaintiff that the School District was of the belief that minor Plaintiff was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor Plaintiff’s personal laptop issued by the School District”

Obama: Citizens should NOT expect Privacy on Cellphones

from CNET:

the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.

Those claims have alarmed the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, which have opposed the Justice Department’s request and plan to tell the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that Americans’ privacy deserves more protection and judicial oversight than what the administration has proposed.

See the article at: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html