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Washington State Committee Passes Three Year Ban on Facial Recognition | | Tenth Amendment Center Blog
OLYMPIA, Wash. (Feb. 6, 2020) – On Tuesday, a House committee approved a bill to put a three-year ban, or moratorium, on the use of facial recognition for surveillance or any other purposes by the state and its political subdivisions. Passage into law would represent an important first step towards protecting privacy and rejecting the national surveillance state.
A coalition of three Democrats introduced House Bill 2856 (HB2856) on Jan. 27. The legislation would put a three year ban on the use of facial recognition by government in Washington State. If passed into law, state and local government agencies would be prohibited from “obtaining, retaining, requesting, accessing, or using any facial recognition technology or any information obtained from or by use of facial recognition technology.”
Wyoming Bill Would Ban Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments | | Tenth Amendment Center Blog
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Feb. 5, 2020) – A bill prefiled in the Wyoming House would prohibit unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s national guard troops, effectively restoring the founders’ framework for state-federal balance on the Guard.
Rep. Tyler Lindholm, (R-Crook), along with a bipartisan coalition of 14 representatives and senators filed House Bill 98 (HB98) on Feb. 4. The legislation would only allow the release of Wyoming National Guard units into active combat duty if there was a congressional declaration of war. Under the proposed law, “active duty combat” means performing the following services in the active federal service of the United States:
OLYMPIA, Wash. (Feb. 6, 2020) – On Tuesday, a House committee approved a bill to put a three-year ban, or moratorium, on the use of facial recognition for surveillance or any other purposes by the state and its political subdivisions. Passage into law would represent an important first step towards protecting privacy and rejecting the national surveillance state.
A coalition of three Democrats introduced House Bill 2856 (HB2856) on Jan. 27. The legislation would put a three year ban on the use of facial recognition by government in Washington State. If passed into law, state and local government agencies would be prohibited from “obtaining, retaining, requesting, accessing, or using any facial recognition technology or any information obtained from or by use of facial recognition technology.”
Wyoming Bill Would Ban Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments | | Tenth Amendment Center Blog
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Feb. 5, 2020) – A bill prefiled in the Wyoming House would prohibit unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s national guard troops, effectively restoring the founders’ framework for state-federal balance on the Guard.
Rep. Tyler Lindholm, (R-Crook), along with a bipartisan coalition of 14 representatives and senators filed House Bill 98 (HB98) on Feb. 4. The legislation would only allow the release of Wyoming National Guard units into active combat duty if there was a congressional declaration of war. Under the proposed law, “active duty combat” means performing the following services in the active federal service of the United States:
- Participation in an armed conflict;
- Performance of a hazardous service in a foreign state; or
- Performance of a duty through an instrumentality of war.