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Thursday, April 12, 2007
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No Privacy In The Bathroom

Looks like the police in Atlanta wanna see themselves a peep show:

Police say they're peeking into stalls inside the bathrooms at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, searching for men who are using the public restrooms to have sex or engage in other indecent behavior.

The head of the Atlanta Police Department's airport unit told the local newspaper that "his precinct late last year began using plainclothes officers to patrol the restrooms searching for luggage thieves. But those patrols, he said, resulted in an increased number of incidental busts for indecent exposure, including the high-profile arrest of Ed Wall, chairman of the MARTA board of directors."

So what are they going to do... stand on the rim of the toilet in the next stall and look over the top randomly?  And even if you are doing something in the stall... is it really indecent exposure?  After all... the stalls aren't exposed... you know... by design.  But this part was the best:

The ACLU says police are within their rights, as passengers don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place.

That's right... if you are in a public restroom, you have no expectation of privacy.  Hey... why not just setup cameras in their next?  Honestly... don't the airport police have passenger profiling they should be doing?

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