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Re:Police raid Gizmodo editor's house by anigbrowl on Monday April 26, 2010 @05:34PM (#1296204)
It's certainly traumatic. What's worse is that Brian Lam, Gizmodo's editor-in-chief, apparently chose to leave Chen holding the bag; in their flippant response to Bruce Sewell, they directed him to recover the device from Chen, rather than at their editorial offices in San Francisco - I presume the REACT unit don't have jurisdiction in SF and a separate warrant will need to be issued.
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Re:Police raid Gizmodo editor's house by houseabsolute on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @12:42AM (#1297224)
Why would a state agency like REACT not have jurisdiction in a city that's in California?
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Re:Police raid Gizmodo editor's house by anigbrowl on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @01:03AM (#1297257)
We're both wrong :)

they're not a state agency, but I thought they were just in Santa Clara county. per their website, they serve Alameda County, Santa Clara County, San Francisco County, San Mateo County, and Santa Cruz County.

A partnership of 17 local, state, and federal agencies, with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office designated as the lead agency. The REACT Task Force is one of five in the State of California and authorized under California Penal Code 13848. ... Established in 1997 by the California state Department of Justice.

I guess they went for the nearest target first, then. I think they'd still need a warrant in each county, or they'd have had the state Attorney-general's office procure the warrant...but I'm too tired to go back and look at it now.

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