Kids' names could end up in police files (their pics taken by mall police)

[rainbow4321]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/26/BAGA7BHHBH1.DTL

A plan to photograph teenagers branded as troublemakers by security guards at a popular shopping center in Antioch is alarming civil libertarians who say the plan stomps all over the youths' civil rights.

The proposal, endorsed by many patrons and businesses at Deer Valley Plaza on Lone Tree Way, would see guards with Peace Keepers Security snapping pictures of youths who repeatedly intimidate shoppers or cause mischief.

Because many of the students likely to be singled out attend nearby Deer Valley High School, security could hand over the photos to school officials for them to identify, said school Principal Jo Ella Allen.

Police would not take any of the photographs, Moczulski stressed. Security guards would snap pictures only of those youths suspected of wrongdoing and would not take wholesale generic shots of patrons, he said.

[applegrove]

1. Hey - Utopia Libertarians!! Talk about the patriot act or shhh.

I cannot stand it. In Canada a few years ago the civil libertarians were standing up for criminals having privacy rights over their DNA.

I just wish we could make judgement calls on what fights are really important. Bad kids at a mall - so what?