> I'm all for going after scammers and prosecuting contractors who take dangerous shortcuts. Most of the intended audience of that Reason article is not, howev

> I'm all for going after scammers and prosecuting contractors who take dangerous shortcuts. Most of the intended audience of that Reason article is not, however. This is written from the perspective of (and published in a journal dedicated to) "Government Regulation Claims Another Victim" and not "individual regulator[1] going way beyond appropriate enforcement". The bottom line is that this isn't a story I trust Reason to report accurately. I'd want to see a local journalist write it up first before I'd be willing to believe that there wasn't some level of fraud suspected. [1] Or cop, maybe. Seems like the original source is a press release from the Sheriff's office.