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Old 12-10-2006, 07:31 PM
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Abuse of power

What is the name of your state? North Carolina! My wife is a secretery in a small City Hall complex in our town. Last Monday someone posted a caricature of a "Naked Santa holding his hat over private parts. Hardly obscene. The "Chief of Police" took it upon himself to call all 8 women employees into his office and then to FInger print, and question them in reference to the picture. No one objected to this procedure because this man is very intimedating!!! He than destroyed the prints. The City Manager let this happen without any explanation. Was this a LEGAL ACT or an abuse of power. Were my wifes civall rights violated? Everyone in the office are afraid of this man......Was he in a legal paramater to do this ??
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Old 12-10-2006, 07:49 PM
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Was this a LEGAL ACT or an abuse of power.
What they did was very likely a violation and should be prosecuted... for wasting the fingerprint ink and paper. No other crime.

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Were my wifes civall rights violated?
What are civall rights??
If you mean CIVIL rights, no.
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Old 12-10-2006, 09:03 PM
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Why would it have been illegal to take fingerprints of someone with their permission?
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Old 12-12-2006, 08:56 AM
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It sounds like the Chief of Police doesn't have enough to do. What he did was dumb but not illegal. Your wife and her co-workers are free to complain to the City Manager, Mayor, City Counsel, etc. about the COP's behavior but that's it.
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