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Posted: 9/30/2014 5:27:58 PM EDT
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Wow, that seems really odd, love to hear the reasoning for that from the PD. I suspect if the driver had tried to take a picture of the officer it wouldn't go over too well.
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Posted: 9/30/2014 5:28:21 PM EDT
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edit - double tap
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Posted: 9/30/2014 5:57:06 PM EDT
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You can take all the pictures you want in public, but I don't see how he can compel you to take off your hat and glasses.
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Posted: 9/30/2014 7:11:59 PM EDT
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When you are arrested, doesn't the agency have the right to fingerprint and photograph you?
Isn't a traffic citation an arrest? Sounds legit... but weird. |
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Posted: 9/30/2014 7:14:28 PM EDT
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A lot of agencies do this because of identity theft. Unfortunately it's fairly common for one brother whose license is invalid, has a warrant or whatever to use his brothers name and DOB, then never take care of ticket. Having a picture of person who was issued citation helps clear innocent person.
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Posted: 9/30/2014 7:22:06 PM EDT
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When you are arrested, doesn't the agency have the right to fingerprint and photograph you? Isn't a traffic citation an arrest? Sounds legit... but weird. yes no agree |
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Posted: 9/30/2014 7:23:52 PM EDT
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yes no agree Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When you are arrested, doesn't the agency have the right to fingerprint and photograph you? Isn't a traffic citation an arrest? Sounds legit... but weird. yes no agree Am I free to go?? 
j/k I do not wish to create joinder!! 
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Posted: 9/30/2014 9:02:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A lot of agencies do this because of identity theft. Unfortunately it's fairly common for one brother whose license is invalid, has a warrant or whatever to use his brothers name and DOB, then never take care of ticket. Having a picture of person who was issued citation helps clear innocent person. This. Newer handheld electronic citation machines have the ability to attach photos to the electronic tickets. A photo of the driver taken during the traffic stop proves who was actually issued the citation. If someone used your name for a traffic summons then it would be proof that it wasn't you in court. They can also be used to take photos of crash damage when a citation is subsequently issued, etc.
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Posted: 9/30/2014 9:19:40 PM EDT
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Just take his pic at the same time. Let's see what happens next.
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Posted: 9/30/2014 9:26:03 PM EDT
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You can take all the pictures you want in public, but I don't see how he can compel you to take off your hat and glasses. Sniff test fail. Obviously he can to make sure you are the same person as the photo in the DL. Of course, if it is a Muslim female wearing head garb with completely covered face, shitstorm would ensue. |
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Posted: 9/30/2014 9:32:10 PM EDT
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This is clearly cop bashing!
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Posted: 9/30/2014 9:38:55 PM EDT
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I don't see how they could make you remove your glasses & cap.
Is LE required to provide picture ID upon request? |
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Posted: 9/30/2014 9:57:56 PM EDT
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So no one knows if its legal or if you have the right to refuse. I dont know alot of laws but only refuseing the dwi is the only thing i know that gets you a ride for.
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Posted: 9/30/2014 10:32:29 PM EDT
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This is clearly cop bashing! I agree |
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Posted: 9/30/2014 10:33:17 PM EDT
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Sniff test fail. Obviously he can to make sure you are the same person as the photo in the DL. Of course, if it is a Muslim female wearing head garb with completely covered face, shitstorm would ensue. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You can take all the pictures you want in public, but I don't see how he can compel you to take off your hat and glasses. Sniff test fail. Obviously he can to make sure you are the same person as the photo in the DL. Of course, if it is a Muslim female wearing head garb with completely covered face, shitstorm would ensue. A lot of cops don't have ability to get DL photos from their MDT's, saying they have MDT's. So as what usually happens with most cops a violator doesn't have DL on them, when they run name/dob they have no idea if person is who they say they are. I have ability to run someone with DL or name and DOB and pull DL/ID photo to make sure I'm dealing with the person whom said person claims to be. If I'm handed state ID im good. You tell me Name/DOB I'm pulling your DL photo. Been a LOT of identity theft, USUALLY from family members using siblings when contacted by police. If I'm contacted by police and issued a citation(yes I've been written) I don't have a problem with cops taken my picture. |
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Posted: 9/30/2014 10:50:02 PM EDT
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Cop cars have dash cams and some cops have lapel cameras taking video the whole time. How is taking a pic different?
You can take pics/video of the cop too, some cops may not like it, but its legal. |
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Posted: 10/1/2014 11:17:38 AM EDT
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Well shit, if I have to pose for a picture, why do I need to carry a photo ID?
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Posted: 10/1/2014 11:30:35 AM EDT
[#18]
having your picture taking from?
you mean taken by. |
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Posted: 10/1/2014 4:45:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: . . . why do I need to carry a photo ID? A lot of people don't.
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Posted: 10/1/2014 8:39:36 PM EDT
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I don't see how they could make you remove your glasses & cap. Is LE required to provide picture ID upon request? We have it, and I've shown it when asked. No big deal to me at all. |
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Posted: 10/1/2014 8:47:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is LE required to provide picture ID upon request? They are in my city.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 1:27:26 AM EDT
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No right to privacy in public view.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 8:16:17 AM EDT
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No right to privacy in public view. There is a difference between that and being required to take off hats and eyeglasses and pose for a picture. When you are in public, the press or whoever can take your picture and there is not much you can do about it, but you don't have to cooperate, you can hide your face with something, wear a disguise, etc. You are certainly under no obligation to pose for paparazzi. The question is under what legal authority can a LEO who is not more than ticketing someone for a minor traffic offence compel someone to submit to posing for a photo? If it isn't legally mandatory can a driver refuse? If a person did, would the officer claim that such refusal was in itself suspicion of some other crime like identity theft? Is that kind of suspicion reasonable without some other evidence? Could they arrest for refusal if they otherwise wouldn't normally just for a speeding ticket? I know they are given wide discretion to arrest for practically any or nearly no reason, but would it stick? What could they charge someone with or would they just do it to ruin a person's day by cuffing them and hauling them downtown and having their car towed? |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 8:29:30 AM EDT
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No right to privacy in public view. that |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 8:43:02 AM EDT
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Isn't a traffic citation an arrest? A traffic citation isn't an arrest but a traffic stop is technically an arrest since you aren't free to go until the officer releases you. It's really only a temporary arrest. |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:50:12 AM EDT
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The more I think about this, the more I wonder if I'm missing something so please help clarify.
To operate a motor vehicle on public roads in TX, one must have a valid drivers license. If the driver does not have the license on them, they coud provide DL# or other identifiers in order for LE to pull up their record? Am I correct in thinking that agencies have the ability to pull up that person's picture on their car computer? Is the demand to take a picture of the person due to the officer not having access to a proper teminal? Kinda like having a vendor take an impression of you credit card when the machines/phones are down? As a follow-up question, how/why is the law applied to driving on private tollroads? Is a driver required to have updated inspections, tags, valid DL, insurance? |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:29:41 AM EDT
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The more I think about this, the more I wonder if I'm missing something so please help clarify. To operate a motor vehicle on public roads in TX, one must have a valid drivers license. If the driver does not have the license on them, they coud provide DL# or other identifiers in order for LE to pull up their record? Am I correct in thinking that agencies have the ability to pull up that person's picture on their car computer? Is the demand to take a picture of the person due to the officer not having access to a proper teminal? Kinda like having a vendor take an impression of you credit card when the machines/phones are down? As a follow-up question, how/why is the law applied to driving on private tollroads? Is a driver required to have updated inspections, tags, valid DL, insurance? Dude, we cant even get a straight answer as to waether a cop can leagaly make you take off your hat and glass' and take your phot for a speeding ticket. Your questions are gonna overload the hide. 
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Posted: 10/2/2014 3:18:46 PM EDT
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The more I think about this, the more I wonder if I'm missing something so please help clarify. To operate a motor vehicle on public roads in TX, one must have a valid drivers license. If the driver does not have the license on them, they coud provide DL# or other identifiers in order for LE to pull up their record? Am I correct in thinking that agencies have the ability to pull up that person's picture on their car computer? Is the demand to take a picture of the person due to the officer not having access to a proper teminal? Kinda like having a vendor take an impression of you credit card when the machines/phones are down? If a person doesn't have a DL on them, the driver can provide me their DL #...which is kind of rare as most cant remember their DL #. If they can't remember it, I just run it by name and DOB. I'll have dispatch give me the description of that name of DOB to make sure it matches the person I have pulled over. You can get a citation for not having a driving with a DL on you but it's one of those citations where you pissed the cop off. Not all agencies are able to pull up a person's picture on their MDT. It depends if the agency gives the officer access that kind of stuff. I know I can't. Only our dispatchers can. I've seen agencies where the officers run their own CCH and pull up the person's picture on their MDT. |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 4:20:41 PM EDT
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Dude, we cant even get a straight answer as to waether a cop can leagaly make you take off your hat and glass' and take your phot for a speeding ticket. Your questions are gonna overload the hide.
There is no straight answer. The law does not address this exact scenario. If you are justified in compelling someone to do something like that, you would be justified in using force to do so...doesn't seem reasonable to me. Our new citation writers have this ability. With paper citations, we would take a thumbprint from folks that did not present a hard copy DL. Now we can snap a picture of the violator. If someone was wearing sunglasses, I would simply ask them to remove the glasses so I could compare their drivers license photo. No problem. *Click* Not a single person ever knew that I had taken their picture. |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 4:31:06 PM EDT
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There is no straight answer. The law does not address this exact scenario. If you are justified in compelling someone to do something like that, you would be justified in using force to do so...doesn't seem reasonable to me. Our new citation writers have this ability. With paper citations, we would take a thumbprint from folks that did not present a hard copy DL. Now we can snap a picture of the violator. If someone was wearing sunglasses, I would simply ask them to remove the glasses so I could compare their drivers license photo. No problem. *Click* Not a single person ever knew that I had taken their picture. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Dude, we cant even get a straight answer as to waether a cop can leagaly make you take off your hat and glass' and take your phot for a speeding ticket. Your questions are gonna overload the hide.
There is no straight answer. The law does not address this exact scenario. If you are justified in compelling someone to do something like that, you would be justified in using force to do so...doesn't seem reasonable to me. Our new citation writers have this ability. With paper citations, we would take a thumbprint from folks that did not present a hard copy DL. Now we can snap a picture of the violator. If someone was wearing sunglasses, I would simply ask them to remove the glasses so I could compare their drivers license photo. No problem. *Click* Not a single person ever knew that I had taken their picture. Great answers here. So, now that thumbprint are required when issued a license,do you have ability to compare? |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 4:46:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The more I think about this, the more I wonder if I'm missing something so please help clarify. To operate a motor vehicle on public roads in TX, one must have a valid drivers license. If the driver does not have the license on them, they coud provide DL# or other identifiers in order for LE to pull up their record? Am I correct in thinking that agencies have the ability to pull up that person's picture on their car computer? Is the demand to take a picture of the person due to the officer not having access to a proper teminal? Kinda like having a vendor take an impression of you credit card when the machines/phones are down? As a follow-up question, how/why is the law applied to driving on private tollroads? Is a driver required to have updated inspections, tags, valid DL, insurance? Drivers license returns from DPS are text only (at least in my city), so the DL photo is not available. The only descriptors on a DL are race, hair color, eye color, height, and weight. DLs can be looked up by number or name and date of birth. The reason you're not getting a straight answer on whether a driver can be compelled to remove hat/glasses for a photo is because there isn't one. Technically, during a detention an officer has the authority to control the movement of the detained person, so I would think an officer could remove the hat/glasses based on that during the detention. There is a long history of doing this while documenting gang members. However, these electronic ticket devices are pretty new along with the issue of photographing drivers on simple traffic stops. While I believe the driver can be compelled to have their picture taken under current case law, I don't think an officer would want to use force to do so and be the test case. Most officers with the electronic devices just take the picture while talking to the driver, and the driver doesn't even know it. The reason for taking the photo during the stop is to prove in court that the cited person was indeed the driver. DL photos are tiny and can be extremely out of date with online renewal (I think mine is 7 years old). Traffic laws apply to private toll roads. |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 1:04:50 AM EDT
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Well shit, if I have to pose for a picture, why do I need to carry a photo ID? you dont have to, youll jut get a ticket for fail to display dl on top of whatever else youre getting. a traffic stop is a detention. you dont have to ID yourself unless youre under arrest. but...if you refuse to ID yourself on a traffic stop, your probably going to jail for whatever traffic offense you committed/fail to display DL. I know traffic guys that discreetly take the photo with their auto-ticket writer, never heard of a roadside photoshoot... |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 4:31:03 PM EDT
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Great answers here. So, now that thumbprint are required when issued a license,do you have ability to compare? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Great answers here. So, now that thumbprint are required when issued a license,do you have ability to compare? The ability is there, but it is a lot of resources to expend for a traffic citation. Honestly, the thumbprints we take on the side of the road are just about useless. They are typically taken on the corner of a ticket book with a half-ass inkpad portable inkpad from someone seated in a vehicle. When you couple that with the fact that most of the folks that have no tangible ID are hispanics, and many of those do manual labor for a living, their thumbprints do not do us much good. Pictures are better and more easily comparable for the average person. I doubt our court is running citation prints through AFIS to ID folks that received a seatbelt ticket.. Quoted:
I know traffic guys that discreetly take the photo with their auto-ticket writer, never heard of a roadside photoshoot... Yep. Walk up with the ticket writer held in the same position that I write with it...picture taken as you look at me. I went back to paper citations when I went back to night shift a couple years ago though. |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 5:53:46 PM EDT
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The ability is there, but it is a lot of resources to expend for a traffic citation. Honestly, the thumbprints we take on the side of the road are just about useless. They are typically taken on the corner of a ticket book with a half-ass inkpad portable inkpad from someone seated in a vehicle. When you couple that with the fact that most of the folks that have no tangible ID are hispanics, and many of those do manual labor for a living, their thumbprints do not do us much good. Pictures are better and more easily comparable for the average person. I doubt our court is running citation prints through AFIS to ID folks that received a seatbelt ticket.. Yep. Walk up with the ticket writer held in the same position that I write with it...picture taken as you look at me. I went back to paper citations when I went back to night shift a couple years ago though. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Great answers here. So, now that thumbprint are required when issued a license,do you have ability to compare? The ability is there, but it is a lot of resources to expend for a traffic citation. Honestly, the thumbprints we take on the side of the road are just about useless. They are typically taken on the corner of a ticket book with a half-ass inkpad portable inkpad from someone seated in a vehicle. When you couple that with the fact that most of the folks that have no tangible ID are hispanics, and many of those do manual labor for a living, their thumbprints do not do us much good. Pictures are better and more easily comparable for the average person. I doubt our court is running citation prints through AFIS to ID folks that received a seatbelt ticket.. Quoted:
I know traffic guys that discreetly take the photo with their auto-ticket writer, never heard of a roadside photoshoot... Yep. Walk up with the ticket writer held in the same position that I write with it...picture taken as you look at me. I went back to paper citations when I went back to night shift a couple years ago though. You would think there'd be some phone ap that would work in the field - at least that's what I get from watching all those cop shows on TV! |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 6:01:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You would think there'd be some phone ap that would work in the field - at least that's what I get from watching all those cop shows on TV! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Great answers here. So, now that thumbprint are required when issued a license,do you have ability to compare? The ability is there, but it is a lot of resources to expend for a traffic citation. Honestly, the thumbprints we take on the side of the road are just about useless. They are typically taken on the corner of a ticket book with a half-ass inkpad portable inkpad from someone seated in a vehicle. When you couple that with the fact that most of the folks that have no tangible ID are hispanics, and many of those do manual labor for a living, their thumbprints do not do us much good. Pictures are better and more easily comparable for the average person. I doubt our court is running citation prints through AFIS to ID folks that received a seatbelt ticket.. Quoted: I know traffic guys that discreetly take the photo with their auto-ticket writer, never heard of a roadside photoshoot... Yep. Walk up with the ticket writer held in the same position that I write with it...picture taken as you look at me. I went back to paper citations when I went back to night shift a couple years ago though. You would think there'd be some phone ap that would work in the field - at least that's what I get from watching all those cop shows on TV! They exist, but they're not very reliable.
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