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In the name of living and breathing constitutional ideology we have become a litigious legal society. The overwhelming amount of new laws and case law sometimes obscures peoples basic rights and we need to fight against these limitations based on popular... Our state and federal constitutions go hand in hand to lay the foundation of our liberties. In the name of living and breathing constitutional ideology we have become a litigious legal society. The overwhelming amount of new laws and case law sometimes obscures peoples basic rights and we need to fight against these limitations based on popular sentiment or ideology. Our founding is based on a solid and unmovable belief in the preservation of the right of ordinary people to be the primary source of power given by God. \[More\](https://wyliberty.org/javascript:void(0);) ## \[Wyoming School Safety Part 2: School Violence, Violent Crime and SROs\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-part-2-school-violence-violent-crime-and-sros) Monday, 12 January 2015 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/392/b2ap3\_large\_Even\_when\_controlling.jpg) </a>by Tom Rose First of all let's just state outright: school violence is genuinely terrifying for all concerned. The issue at hand is whether draconian measures as directed by the Department of Homeland Security are relevant, necessary or even beneficial for Wyoming. We began by consideration of the findings and recommendations of Wyoming Governor Me... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-part-2-school-violence-violent-crime-and-sros) ## \[Wyoming School Safety Issues That Every Citizen Should Know\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-issues-that-every-citizen-should-know) Monday, 12 January 2015 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) by Tom Rose In our recent blog on Keeping Kids Out of Jail we mentioned that revisiting the policies that led to placing school resource officers in Wyoming schools would significantly reduce Wyoming's second-in-the-nation juvenile arrest and incarceration rates. In this blog we will explore some of those policies. While policy direction appears to... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-issues-that-every-citizen-should-know) ## \[Free Speech and Delicate Flowers\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/free-speech-and-delicate-flowers) Monday, 12 January 2015 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) With last week's tragedy in France, it is important to pause and reflect on the importance of that most inimical of liberties, free speech. It is with fortune that America is not a regular witness to physical retaliation when dissident and unorthodox ideas are communicated. However, our national cultural and legal respect for free speech slowly dwi... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/free-speech-and-delicate-flowers) ## \[Alternative Directions for In-School Discipline\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/alternative-directions-for-in-school-discipline) Friday, 02 January 2015 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/376/b2ap3\_large\_categorized\_juvenile\_incarcerations.jpg) </a>Police officers stationed at schools are generally known as School Resource Officers (SROs). According to the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO), the formalized organization of SROs began in 1991 although alternative sources predate the existence of SROs by several decades. Irrespective of the history of SROs there is little d... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/alternative-directions-for-in-school-discipline) ## \[The Troubling Trend of Elementary School Arrests\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/the-troubling-trend-of-elementary-school-arrests) Friday, 02 January 2015 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/375/b2ap3\_large\_National\_Wyoming\_2011\_Juvenile\_Incarcerations.jpg) </a>For months we have been investigating problems associated with troubled youth in the state of Wyoming. Recently we published a series of reports on How to Keep Kids Out of Jail. Within this series is a piece focusing on the presence of School Resource Officers increasingly in schools. An inflammatory news article appeared in the press just before C... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/the-troubling-trend-of-elementary-school-arrests) ## \[Outsourcing School Discipline to the Judicial System\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/outsourcing-school-discipline-to-the-judicial-system) Friday, 19 December 2014 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/368/b2ap3\_large\_Even\_when\_controlling.jpg) </a>According to juvenile justice advocates such as the ACLU, the School to Prison Pipeline prioritizes incarceration over education due to several factors including failing public schools, zero tolerance policies, increased reliance on police for school discipline, "alternative schools" for disciplinary problem students, court involvement and juvenile... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/outsourcing-school-discipline-to-the-judicial-system) ## \[Looking Forward For Wyoming’s Juvenile Justice System\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/looking-forward-for-wyoming-s-juvenile-justice-system) Friday, 19 December 2014 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/366/b2ap3\_large\_National\_WY\_Incarceration\_97-10.jpg) </a>The juvenile justice system in Wyoming is unique in the country. It would be pleasing to have a juvenile justice system unique due to its stellar qualities, but unfortunately, Wyoming stands alone based on its failure to achieve even the most basic expectations standard in juvenile justice systems in the rest of the country. One of Wyoming's diverg... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/looking-forward-for-wyoming-s-juvenile-justice-system) ## \[How to Keep Kids Out of Jail\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/how-to-keep-kids-out-of-jail) Friday, 19 December 2014 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/365/b2ap3\_large\_Fig1.Reference.jpg) </a>I intended this to be an upbeat resource-rich article highlighting success stories, strategies and promising new approaches to keep children out of the juvenile justice system. In the course of researching for this paper I certainly did find some promising trends and programs and I will mention them and explain why they offer exciting possibilities... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/how-to-keep-kids-out-of-jail) ## \[Civil Asset Forfeiture – An Opportunity for Reform\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/civil-asset-forfeiture-an-opportunity-for-reform) Thursday, 18 December 2014 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) Steve Klein and Glenn Woods from Boldrepublic.com discuss civil asset forfeiture in Wyoming and Senate File 14 (2015), which would reform Wyoming law to only allow for forfeiture of property after owners are convicted of a crime. \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/civil-asset-forfeiture-an-opportunity-for-reform) ## \[Wyoming Agency Will Retain Unconstitutional Personnel Rule\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-agency-will-retain-unconstitutional-personnel-rule) Tuesday, 09 December 2014 \[Legal\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives) \[Timeless Topics\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/timeless-topics) <a> !\[\](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/352/b2ap3\_medium\_agency-will-retain-unconstitutional-personnel-rule.jpg) </a>In late September I submitted comments to the Wyoming Department of Administration and Information ("A&amp;I") opposing two proposed changes to the State of Wyoming Personnel Rules. My memo discussed two vague and overbroad provisions, one which could lead to unconstitutional abridgements of free speech and the other which unequivocally punished ap... \[ Continue reading\](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-agency-will-retain-unconstitutional-personnel-rule) \[ First Page \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html) \[ Previous Page \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=80) \[ 5 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=40) \[ 6 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=50) \[ 7 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=60) \[ 8 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=70) \[ 9 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=80) \[ 10 \](https://wyliberty.org/javascript:void(0);) \[ 11 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=100) \[ 12 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=110) \[ 13 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=120) \[ 14 \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=130) \[ Next Page \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=100) \[ Last Page \](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives?format=html&amp;start=130) !\[logo white 002\](https://wyliberty.org/images/general\_art/logo\_white\_002.png) \*\*Wyoming Liberty Group\*\* P.O. 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