Michigan Police Using Military Cellphone Tracking Device To Gather Your Information
A Freedom of Information Act request about this has been denied.
‘HailStorm’ is a new device obtained by the Oakland County Sheriff with monies from a U.S. Homeland Security Grant and so far, there isn’t much information available on what exactly it can and cannot do. There were no questions asked when Oakland County commissioners unanimously approved the use of this cellphone tracking device previously used by the US military in Iraq.
Undersheriff Michael McCabe told The Detroit News that the federal Homeland Security Act bars him from discussing the Hailstorm device…
Oakland county received a $258,370 federal grant that paid for more than half the device, training and about $56,000 to purchase a vehicle to contain it.
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Clearwater1948 May 19th, 2014 at 7:12 am
Then it’s illegal and unconstitutional right to privacy is been ignored stomped on treaded upon by government and it is totally wrong.
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