Three southern Utah county sheriffs described heavy-handed police tactics that they say have become common where ever BLM rangers and Forest Service officers patrol.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55921992-90/federal-officers-law-utah.html.csp
Garfield County Sheriff James Perkins had with overzealous federal employees over the past few years, and his concerns have gone unanswered.
Smith said he’d been to Washington, D.C., four times, and one exchange devolved into a screaming match with top officials of the U.S. Forest Service.
“For the last few years, their whole agenda is: We don’t want to work with you anymore, we don’t have to work with you anymore, and we’re not going to work with you anymore.”
I'm sure there's more but I'm aware of one in So Oregon, Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson wanting some answers over a year ago. He was getting a lot of complaints from county residents being harassed by Feds.
More Sheriff's should be speaking up for the 10th Amendment.
OREGON SHERIFF GIL GILBERTSON CONTINUES STAND AGAINST U.S. FOREST SERVICE
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news287.htm
Or else we can just toss out the 10th Amendment.
Thanks for the ping, George!
Sheriffs ... spoke in favor of HB155, sponsored by Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, which proposes to limit BLM rangers and forest protection officers from exercising police power over state and local laws unless someone's safety is at risk or federal contracts are in place with local police agencies.
"You cannot use our (laws) to arrest our people and issue citations," Noel said. "We don't believe they ever had that authority. Our chief law enforcement officer is the locally elected sheriff who is accountable to the people every four years."
Noel tapped the expertise of Mark Ward, an attorney with the Utah Association of Counties, to explore the legal ramifications of the bill and where police power appropriately rests over federal, state and local criminal behavior.
Arrest, try, and jail them.