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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: CG6468 on June 16, 2011, 09:30:31 AM

Title: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: CG6468 on June 16, 2011, 09:30:31 AM

Big brother from a little city.


City Government demands all keys to properties belonging to Cedar Falls residents.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCLiij0CBA[/youtube]

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: Texacon on June 16, 2011, 10:31:45 AM

Wow!  That's scary!!

Hope they get this turned down and throw everyone of those people out of office.

KC

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 16, 2011, 01:15:10 PM

good luck with that

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: thelaughingman on June 16, 2011, 10:48:14 PM

I like the dude who says that a "higher authority" will decide if the plan is unconstitutional.  Well, yes.  A higher power will do so.



ON ELECTION DAY.  There is no higher authority in this country than the American voter.



So what happened there on June 13th?

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: jediab on June 21, 2011, 01:24:52 PM

As one YouTube viewer comment suggested, "Why not make it voluntary?" Problem solved.

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: rich_t on June 21, 2011, 01:36:39 PM

WTF????

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: thundley4 on June 21, 2011, 01:58:43 PM

This doesn't apply to private single family homes, only apartments with three or more units. Still it's messed up, and hopefully the city would be liable for any thefts that occur do to misuse of the lockbox keys.

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The Cedar Falls City Council voted 6-1 on Monday to expand an existing 2004 ordinance that required lock boxes containing keys at buildings with six or more units and commercial buildings with sprinkler system or unsupervised alarms. The new ordinance, which can become law with a signature by Mayor Jon Crews, expands the requirement to apartment buildings with just three or more units.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/15/controversial-lock-box-ordinance-in-iowa-causes-stir-awaits-mayors-signature/#ixzz1PwFbKHag

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: rich_t on June 21, 2011, 02:00:40 PM

Quote from: thundley4 on June 21, 2011, 01:58:43 PM

This doesn't apply to private single family homes,

Yet.

Title: Re: Cedar Falls, IA, wants your house key.
Post by: TVDOC on June 21, 2011, 02:01:08 PM

Kinda reminds me of the idiots in my town........they require every home equipped with an alarm system to provide the town police with an "alarm certificate", which lists the contacts for the central monitoring facility.

Every year I get a letter telling me that the city ordinance requires me to provide them with a list of TWO neighbors who have both a key to the house, AND the arm/disarm code for the system.

Every year I write them back and advise them that the central monitoring facility (which they have the number) can remotely shut off the alarm, and advise them that if I have to pass out keys and codes, I might just as well leave the house unlocked........ :censored:

doc