State to run background checks on bus evacuees

[Orwellian_Ghost]

State to run background checks on bus evacuees
The Associated Press

AUSTIN -- Texans who board evacuation buses during hurricanes or other emergencies must first submit to criminal background checks, the state's emergency management director has decided.
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http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/362891.html

[mike_c]

1. the screws tighten on the American security state....

This is for our own good-- it's to make us SAFER.

[aquart]

2. The flood waters are rising. Wait till the computer comes back up.

That's the most ludicrous idiocy I've ever read. Texas, huh? Figures.

This is the state that preferred Bush to Ann Richards?

[uppityperson]

3. How many "sex offenders and fugitives" does Texas have?

The policy is an attempt to keep sex offenders and fugitives from boarding evacuation buses with children, the elderly and the disabled, said Jack Colley, the chief of the state's Division of Emergency Management. Sex offenders or other criminals will not be left behind, just evacuated on different buses, he said.

"This will allow us to help them evacuate," Colley told the Houston Chronicle. "We're not going to leave anyone." The intent, he said, is to make sure vulnerable evacuees don't become criminal targets.

State officials will be able to segregate undesirable evacuees even in the chaos of an emergency, he said.
WWe're all entitled to privacy, but we're not entitled to anonymity," Colley said."

Oh give me a break. You are going to ask for names in a chaotic situation, expect those who know this to give you their right names, then check them on the database to protect the other people on the bus?