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And the scanner maker gets a 7% cut. What could go wrong: "the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all th
by DickingAround 10y ago
And the scanner maker gets a 7% cut. What could go wrong: "the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes"
- redditplebs 10y agoTime to lookup ERAD Inc. online. Fun times ahead!
- toomuchtodo 10y agoI'm already spinning up a comprehensive FOIA request with MuckRock.com. Feel free to reply to my comment if anyone would like to collaborate.
- swiftDaemon 10y agoI'd love to see what progress you make with this
- codewritinfool 10y agoThank you for this
- pc86 10y agoAbsolutely
- etrautmann 10y agothank you
- fapjacks 10y agoYes, please. Thanks.
- chiph 10y agoCan you include something like this? "What states does ERAD currently have contracts with? With what states does ERAD anticipate contracts to be signed in the next 180 days, and for all of these states, what percentages will ERAD be earning on funds seized?"
- toomuchtodo 10y agoI'd need to FOIA every police department in order to do this :/ Not scalable. I can create a template that can be used whenever its discovered which police departments are using their services. I'm in touch with the news station that has the contract, so I should be able to get it without an additional FOIA request. Once I have that, I'll recurse further if necessary.
- daveloyall 10y agoWith luck, you'll get in touch with me on the right afternoon, and I'll immediately put plenty of energy into this.
- eloisius 10y agoI'd like to see what you come up with.
- ipsin 10y agoI'm interested in three things: 1) ERAD training materials disseminated to law enforcement agencies (LEAs). 2) Correspondence between those LEAs and DHS, or occurring in DHS forums, regarding ERAD technology. 3) DHS reports, studies or memoranda mentioning ERAD usage in the field by DHS or any other agency. I figure DHS Science & Technology Directorate might not be the right target. Should I just aim at DHS directly, or is there a specific group that would handle those connections between DHS and other law enforcement? Should I structure this as three separate requests?
- daveloyall 10y agoDon't forget!
- swiftDaemon 10y agoThe COO is on linkdin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-beckerman-37819514 https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-beckerman-37819514
- DarkLinkXXXX 10y agoI found their website, and a page describing the service I believe these police are using. https://www.erad-group.com/fci https://www.erad-group.com/fci Also, I noticed that site:www.erad-group.com doesn't return anything on google, but it does on other search engines. Did ERAD request that it be removed from search results? Why would they do that? Why would they also not have a robots.txt if that is the case?
- singlow 10y agoFrom their html source: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, FOLLOW" /> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW" /> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" /> Not sure what they are intending here. But my guess is they don't either. [edit: submitted too soon by mistake]
- tremon 10y agoI think they mean that case-sensitive crawlers are disallowed, and they reserve the right to arbitrarily sue case-insensitive crawlers under the CFAA.
- Mtinie 10y agoUgg...that's a super evil version of the classic "razor blade" business model.
- mcphage 10y ago> And the scanner maker gets a 7% cut. And if the courts decided that the asset forfeiture was incorrect and reimburse the person it was stolen from—does the scanner maker still keep their cut? Or are they still due their cut?
- jsprogrammer 10y agoHighwaymen don't go away, they just get new uniforms and tools. Particularly egregious is Lt. Vincent's take: >"If you can prove can[sic] prove[sic] that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you. And we've done that in the past," Vincent said about any money seized.
- sametmax 10y agoAnother polite way of stating "guilty until proven innocent" with the added twist of "punished in any case". That is seriously messed up.
- xviia 10y agoIn other words, "if we think you could sue us and set a precedent, we will give you your money back. But if you're poor, we won't respond to your phone calls."