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Subject: Re: Right to pr0n overruled
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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:
> 
>>>> . . . 
> 
>>>> 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.