MIAC changes proposed after controversial report
I have not seen the actual report (has not been released to date) but according to a Springfield, Missouri news article about the conference call the committee recently held, below are the MIAC oversight committee’s recommendations to the general assembly.
I would like to put together a “grassroots report” on the issue and hand deliver to every state rep. Please email your suggestions to Catherine@libertyrestorationproject.org
Recommendations by the Committee:
- Enact legislation defining MIAC’s mission and scope in statute. In response to the federal government creating the Department of Homeland Security, MIAC was established in 2005 as a central repository for police agencies to share crime trends. Until the militia report controversy, very few state lawmakers even knew the 30-person agency existed.
- Define and limit the types of intelligence information gathering or sharing in which MIAC can engage.
- Establish a legislative committee to provide oversight of MIAC to review its activities.
- Require MIAC to present an annual report to the legislature on its activities.
- Strengthen personal privacy, civil rights and liberties laws to ensure they can’t be compromised by MIAC’s intelligence-gathering and sharing operations.
- Establish a formal, independent oversight board to provide policy direction and overall leadership to MIAC. Currently, there is an informal committee of advisers.
