Divegeek
03-31-2004, 09:44 AM
In my morning surfing I found reference to this court case from last week.
http://www.michbar.org/opinions/appeals/2004/032304/22562.pdf
From what I gather it says that people who live in housing that is government subsidized can have their constitutional rights deprived of them in the name of safety. This case in particular is about a woman who lived in public housing in Lincoln Park, and was evicted because she had a firearm on the property. The Michigan Appeals court upheld her eviction because it said that the rights of a person are not absolute and because the state has a "legitimate interest in limiting the number of guns."
What I find interesting is that I couldn't find anything about it on any local news sites. For those of you who want more details from what I can decipher happened is something like the following. This apartment complex is for people with disabilities, and some of those peoples rent is subsidized by the government. One of the on staff head shrinkers decided that the subject had become suicidal, and had notified the rest of the staff to be on the look out for the woman to come unglued. One of the other staffers who helped out the tennants in their apartments said that they had thought they had obxerved a gun in the tenants possesion. The staff called the police, who got a search warrant and proceeded to search the womens apartment. Finding no gun they asked her if she had any and she answered that she had one in the trunk of her car. I am not sure if the police confiscated the gun or not, but they did inform the landlord. The landlord then when about the legal proceedings to evict the woman.
http://www.michbar.org/opinions/appeals/2004/032304/22562.pdf
From what I gather it says that people who live in housing that is government subsidized can have their constitutional rights deprived of them in the name of safety. This case in particular is about a woman who lived in public housing in Lincoln Park, and was evicted because she had a firearm on the property. The Michigan Appeals court upheld her eviction because it said that the rights of a person are not absolute and because the state has a "legitimate interest in limiting the number of guns."
What I find interesting is that I couldn't find anything about it on any local news sites. For those of you who want more details from what I can decipher happened is something like the following. This apartment complex is for people with disabilities, and some of those peoples rent is subsidized by the government. One of the on staff head shrinkers decided that the subject had become suicidal, and had notified the rest of the staff to be on the look out for the woman to come unglued. One of the other staffers who helped out the tennants in their apartments said that they had thought they had obxerved a gun in the tenants possesion. The staff called the police, who got a search warrant and proceeded to search the womens apartment. Finding no gun they asked her if she had any and she answered that she had one in the trunk of her car. I am not sure if the police confiscated the gun or not, but they did inform the landlord. The landlord then when about the legal proceedings to evict the woman.