Mike Smigiel in the news Del. Mike Smigiel, R-36-Cecil, attacked the Common Core education initiative. “If you think they made a mess out of the health care, what until you see what they’re doing with Common Core,” Smigiel said. Smigiel said that the state’s health care program resulted in $280 million wasted on a system that didn’t work, and that another $40 million was going to be spent to go with Connecticut’s system. Smigiel also touted his work on privacy issues during this year’s legislative session. Smigiel pointed to his work with Sen. Jamie Raskin and Del. Samuel Rosenberg, both Democrats, and with Sen. Chris Shank, a fellow Republican, on a bill to require warrants for police to look at Marylanders’ electronic communications. ”The police or any government agency will need to get a warrant to look at any of your electronic communications that you have that are stored, and that’s the way it should be,” Smigiel said. Smigiel also pointed to bills that require a warrant for police to use a person’s cell phone to determine their location, except in emergency situations, and that push police to destroy information that is not pertinent to a crime or investigation. “We say you have to get rid of all of the information that’s not a hit of somebody having committed some kind of crime or done something wrong, and so now they’ll have to get rid of it,” Smigiel said. “I wanted forty eight hours, I think we ended up at six months.” “[Police and the government] can do their job, but if they do it, they have to do it with a warrant,” Smigiel said, adding that the information gathered has to be “used for a purpose that immediately takes care of the crime that’s there and can’t be used against you.....In a short question and answer session with the audience, Smigiel, Hershey and Arentz spoke about education, saying that efforts were underway to delay the implementation of Common Core. Arentz and Smigiel both noted that federal funding for Common Core would likely not cover the cost to counties. Smigiel pointed out the casino revenue had not yielded any new revenue to education.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:02:19 +0000
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