HOUSTON – The Texas Department of Public Safety has
quietly embarked on a project to take the fingerprints
of every Texan old enough to drive over the next 12 years, and add them to a
statewide criminal history database.
Not only has the department made that momentous decision
on its own, it doesn’t even have clear legal authority
to do so.
The credit for breaking the news on those two items goes
to consumer affairs columnist Dave Lieber of the Dallas Morning News, whose
long-running “Watchdog” column often shows up in my Google Alerts, for obvious
reasons.
As an old-school columnist, Lieber tends to keep his
opinions subdued, and he doesn’t generally call people dishonest. But I have no
problem with doing that, so I’d like to point out that the DPS spokesman he
quotes at length is less than straightforward about his department’s legal
authority…..To Read More….
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