Notice to Hammond: Reform required even though Haslam, judges, legislators opposed
Sheriff Jim Hammond talks with Greg Luther, left, at a 2014 political event. Mr. Luther is defending the right of citizenry to photograph department officers in any public place. (Photo David Tulis) The following is a letter sent to Jim Hammond, sheriff of Hamilton County, Tenn., regarding an interview about the laws he is charged […]
Dayton mayor Louallen debates journalist on limits of police authority
David Tulis gives a transportation administrative notice Feb. 23, 2018, to Gary Louallen, mayor of Dayton, Tenn., a town in which a few people use the public roadway without state permit but face arrest or citation is stopped. (Photo Facebook) Dayton is the seat of Rhea County, Tenn., where a courthouse stands as a tourist […]
Hammond gets help on key question: Does travel = transportation?
Sheriff Jim Hammond, the most powerful man in Hamilton County, Tenn, declines to answer questions about the scope of authority of the driver license law, but indicates his belief that no one can be on the road without a license, even if that person is non-commercial. (Photo David Tulis) Sheriff Jim Hammond declines to answer […]
How Berke could win all sides by restraining cops, ordering ’open’ city
Mayor Andy Berke speaks with members of the audience at a campaign debate at UTC in 2017. (Photo David Tulis) I realize it will take a while for the policy and political implications of transportation administrative notice to take effect. For busy men such as Mayor Andy Berke and city attorney Wade Hinton, it will […]
Transportation administrative notice Tennessee
Chattanooga police officers in two cruisers enforce Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated against a man on state highway 153 who is, by rebuttable presumption, a driver and an operator of a motor vehicle — but who may just be a private traveler caught in a legal snare set up by local officials in […]
Why travel by blacks allowed, but only under license
Roger Taney, the supreme court justice whose Dred Scott opinion shored up black chattel slavery. Black people aren’t free to travel the highways, lanes and roads of Tennessee, according to state government and its rows of officials and officers. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 They are told they cannot be on the open road […]
State obliterates landmark, rips poor via ‘driver licensing’ regime
Most users of the road are private, but Tennessee imposes a fiction upon them: That no one may use the roadway unless they are common carriers for hire, subject to licensure and taxation, like the trailer truck hauling Target goods. (Photo WikiCommons) The Bible on which governors swear to uphold the constitution forbids the moving […]
Mayor Berke, sit down, listen to what happens ‘talking while black’
Officer Steve Meador, right, takes an oath in joining the Chattanooga police department. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) Cameron Williams recounts his arrest on “disorderly conduct” charges in March in a “talking while black” case in Chattanooga. (Photo NoogaRadio) Mayor Berke, sit down and listen to what happens “walking while black” in your city. (Courtesy NoogaRadio 92.7) Tweet […]
‘Talking while black’ defendant yields to courageous cops
Talking-while-black victim Cameron Williams, a hip hop musician called G-Grimey, wants to make the most of his bad experience with cops in which he stood in a public place, addressed an officer for a seeming abuse of his authority, and was arrested under the vague disorderly conduct statute and charged, and his girlfriend gassed while […]
Musician, hairdresser in Nashville sue to legalize home businesses
Musician Lij Saw is suing to overturn a ban in Nashville on home-based businesses. (Photo Beacon Center) Nashville hair stylist Pat Raynor says it is unjust and ugly for city government in Nashville to make her an outlaw for practicing her trade. (Photo Beacon Center) NASHVILLE, Dec. 5, 2017 — Today, the Beacon Center teamed […]