Re: Right to pr0n overruled

On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:43:47 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Jun 28, 2025 at 3:18:06 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 

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Wait for Texas to try and make circumvention of the age verification
requirement by spoofing one's location a crime.

 

The Illinois Secretary of State said that Texas attempted to enforce
abortion law by accessing Illinois database of license-plate readers to
see which women had travelled here for an abortion as those who assist
women in such travel are subject to state law.

 

It's the Fugitive Slave Act all over again.

 

How would license plate data prove aiding and abetting? Unless there's
some other testimonial evidence to go with it, all it proves is that a
car with Texas plates traveled to Illinois. It proves nothing about the
purpose for the travel.

 
It's an investigative technique. A woman returns to Texas who is no
longer pregnant. Police open an investigation. The license plate reader
data is used to get names. They start interviewing people who don't
understand that they need to ask for an attorney hoping one will crack.
 
Illinois has two enormous abortion clinics built within the last few
years, one in the St. Louis suburbs and one in Carbondale, anticipating
demand from out of state. Police know where there are license plate
readers on typical routes to these clinics.
 
State law prohibits accessing this data to investigate unlawful out of
state travel; Texas police broke Illinois law. But I don't see how a cop
out of state can be arrested for accessing records in an investigation.

Seems like Illinois needs to cut off their access.