As Chicago awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this month that could overturn its 28-year-old handgun ban, City Hall is considering a host of countermeasures that might set off another round of legal fights with gun advocates. Chicago Tribune
Justices Allow Search of Policeman's Text Messages
A California police department did not violate the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it audited the text messages on a pager the city had issued him, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday. The decision represented only a preliminary attempt to define public employees' Fourth Amendment rights in the digital era, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the court, took pains to say that the ruling was narrow and closely tied to the facts. New York Times
200 EMTs Lose Licenses in Certification Scam
Jailers' Blunder Frees Four Inmates
A Clayton County, Ga., Sheriff's spokesman said Thursday that corrections officers' failure to fingerprint prisoners resulted in the improper release of at least four inmates from the county jail. Sgt. Sonja Sanchez, spokeswoman for the Clayton County Sheriff's Office, said that the corrections officers could have done several things to prevent the incident from occurring, but "the bottom line is they didn't fingerprint" and the inmates were released after giving false identities. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
911 Vacancies Plague DeKalb Center
The DeKalb, Ga., 911 center is so understaffed that dispatchers sometimes can't take bathroom breaks, county officials say. Almost a third of the 122 jobs assigned to the center are vacant, and the county is investigating complaints of slow ambulance response times even as it seeks to hire 31 officers and seven supervisors for 911 dispatch. Meanwhile, records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show six dispatchers were disciplined from May 1 to June 8 for failure to show up for work and other violations. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Federal Judge Blasts City Over Stalled Police Reforms
