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Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt"

Posted by timothy on from the life-in-these-united-states dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Four days ago, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona conducted a raid against the county government building hosting computers for a law enforcement database. After threatening to arrest county employees who would stop them, the officers proceeded to secure the room and promptly changed passwords on many of the servers. In a hearing on Friday, a Superior Court judge threatened to hold members of the Sheriff's Office in contempt if they did not reveal the passwords by next Wednesday. Following this, the Sheriff's Office claimed to be conducting an investigation against other Superior Court judges. Courts have asked for passwords before, but never under conditions like this."

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  1. And on that note... by Gordonjcp · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... am I the only one thinking "block the doors, trip the halon"?

  2. Mods, please be responsible. by Moryath · · Score: 4, Funny

    How the hell does a post whose entire content is "fuck you, [name]" get modded "insightful"?

    1. Re:Mods, please be responsible. by BollocksToThis · · Score: 4, Funny

      After checking the definition of 'insight', I decided you were off your rocker.

      After considering the full meaning of "most of [the] people here", I changed my mind again. When dealing with the majority of Slashdot, useful definitions for words have pretty much no place in the proceedings :)

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  3. Re:Good afternoon, Arizonians, by masshuu · · Score: 5, Funny

    +----------+
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  4. but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sheriff Joe is an old man, can't they just check the post it note under the keyboard? Boom, Problem Solved.

  5. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... by slim-t · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you ever see Raising Arizona? Nick Cage served a lot of time in the Maricopa County Correctional Facility for Men. He was what you call, a repeat offender. Clearly it's not working.

  6. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... by chill · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, what you're proposing is, because Nicolas Cage made multiple movies, Joe Arpaio's methodologies on running a correctional facility are a failure?

    Sir, you make a compelling case. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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  7. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... by mooingyak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here we have at Tucker what is called the "hoe squad" and it is what it sounds like. You get your ass up at dawn and hoe and weed

    Sorry, but that is definitely not what "Hoe Squad" sounds like at all.

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  8. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... by LihTox · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's flaunting his flouting, perhaps?

  9. When I lived in Tucson, AZ, we used to say... by elgol · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that Phoenix was just like LA, but with none of the advantages!

  10. Re:On behalf of arizona... by siliconincdotnet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come to New Orleans. The only difference between the criminals and the police is a uniform.

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  11. I got the password.. by JRHelgeson · · Score: 2, Funny

    The password is $h3riff!

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  12. Re:Good afternoon, Arizonians, by anagama · · Score: 2, Funny
    I live in WA, though I'm a native Californian from Humboldt county (lived in a VW bus and then other campers till we settled in WA when I was 2). Anyway, here's a great WA-CA joke, which I feel OK saying cause I'm a Californian.

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    Three guys are out camping, one from Kentucky, one from California, and one from Washington. They're sitting around the campfire shooting the breeze, when the guy from Kentucky pulls out a bottle of Bourbon, takes a gulp, puts the cap back on, tosses it into the air, pulls out a pistol, and shoots it before it hits the ground.

    The guys from WA and CA look at him incredulously ... he just smiles and says "Hey -- where I'm from we got lots of good whiskey."

    Hearing this, the guy from CA pulls out a bottle of wine, takes a big draught, corks it, tosses it into the air, pulls out a pistol, and shoots it before it hits the ground. He looks at the other two with a smile and says "Lot's of good wine in California you know."

    The guy from Washington nods, pulls out a bottle of Red Hook, drinks it all, puts the cap back on the bottle and both back in his pack, pulls out a pistol, and shoots the Californian dead.

    Looking at the shocked guy from Kentucky, he says "Don't worry man, where I'm from we've got lots of Californians but I really gotta recycle the bottle."

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