ROUND TOWN By Heather Young As Templeton flips the calendar from 2014 to <strong>2015</strong>, the small community starts to get back into the hustle and bustle with Chamber networking and a SLOFolks concert. Enjoy the calm before things really heat up this spring and summer. FEBRUARY • Templeton Chamber of Commerce’s Women in Business will meet on Friday, Feb. 10 at 11:30 a.m. The cost is $20 for chamber members and $25 for non-members. To RSVP, email templetonwib@gmail.com by the Friday before the luncheon. Events planned in Templeton • The Templeton Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly After Five Mixer on Thursday, Feb. 26 at Glenn’s Repair & Rental, 5025 El Camino Real in Atascadero. The mixers are an opportunities for people to showcase their businesses in an informal, open house atmosphere. For more information, go to www. templetonchamber.com. • SLOFolks will present Goitse, which is an informal Gaelic Irish greeting meaning “come here,” at Castoro Cellars, 1315 N Bethel Road in Templeton, on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 each. The show is both groupand family-friendly. For more information, call 1-888-DAM-FINE or go to www.castorocellars.com MARCH • Templeton Chamber of Commerce’s Women in Business will meet on Friday, March 10 at 11:30 a.m. The cost is $20 for chamber members and $25 for non-members. To RSVP, email templetonwib@gmail.com by the Friday before the luncheon. • The Templeton Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly After Five Mixer on Thursday, March 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Solarponics, 4700 El Camino Real in Atascadero. PERSPECTIVE from page 38 Fast Assets: County cops are getting faster communications and web access, thanks to federal seizure money. The board of supervisors approved $40,000 to construct a fiber optic cable from the Sheriff-Coroner’s office to the San Luis Obispo airport, courtesy of the Federal Asset Forfeiture Trust Fund, (FAFTF). If $40,000 sounds like a lot of money to run a mile or so of data cable, at least the county won’t have to pay it, thanks to FAFTF. Asset forfeiture is a polite term for revenue from the Ferraris, jet boats, helicopters and the cash law enforcement seizes from alleged criminals and drug traffickers. That’s the intent, but seizure laws are an increasingly lucrative revenue stream for police and that’s raising hackles among constitutional rights groups. They say federal laws make it easy to seize assets from citizens who have not been convicted of a crime. Such “policing for profit” is a breach of constitutional property rights, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. In cases cited, highway patrol and small town police have used civil forfeiture laws to coerce or simply confiscate money and assets that rightfully belong to citizens, because federal seizure laws don’t require proof of wrongdoing. There is no doubt federal forfeiture laws are lucrative: last year FAFTF trust fund had over $2 billion in assets; how much was taken from innocent citizens, isn’t clear. The Institute for Justice, a civil rights law firm says the number is 80%. That’s abuse, says Tim Walberg, the Congressman sponsoring the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, intended to put a stop to crimeless asset seizure. The ACLU recently won a landmark class action suit in Texas where police allegedly routinely seized assets from African American and Hispanic motorists. The motorists were told to turn over their money or face federal money laundering charges. Critics say law enforcement has used forfeiture laws to pay salaries and buy paramilitary assault weapons. Law enforcement officials argue that seizure laws take the profit out of crime and stop money laundering. We need to point out that few, if any instances of seizure law abuse have surfaced in San Luis Obispo County and that’s good. But I do think our elected officials and law enforcement have a responsibility to refuse tainted money. If the revenue being offered was illicitly seized from citizens, San Luis Obispo County officials should stand up and say, thanks, but no thanks. Fall in Love with your Home Again 40 Paso Robles <strong>Magazine</strong>, <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong>
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