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Onondaga County DA on new concealed carry social media review law: “it’s unenforceable”<\/a><\/p>\n

Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick is calling a\u00a0new law<\/a>\u00a0set to take effect September 1st \u201cunenforceable.\u201d Anyone who wants to apply for a license to carry a concealed weapon in New York State will have to hand over access to their\u00a0social media accounts<\/a>, starting September 1st. \u201cI thought it was somebody pranking me, but sadly it’s true,” said Fitzpatrick. He says he and other leaders in law enforcement were not included in decisions about this law. His biggest worry is how to enforce it.<\/p>\n

“You know how much money was allocated to the sheriff’s departments in the state of New York to enforce this, and the state police? Not a dime,” said Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n

John Jay College Associate Professor<\/a>\u00a0Adam Scott Wandt says he can see where state leaders are coming from in response to signs allegedly missed from mass shooting suspects on their social media accounts; despite this, the law might not be practical. \u201cThey’ll need money, they’ll need training, they’ll need ways of enforcing the new law, and that’s something that always should be taken into account by the legislature,” said Wandt.
\nThey will also need people to do research on all the accounts that come in. Fitzpatrick says he will meet with police departments and the Sheriff\u2019s office in the coming weeks to figure out what they can do, but it very well could be nothing. \u201cPeople are being shot out there and I’m sitting here in an office reading about your trip to Disney World? It’s unbelievable the lack of thought and foresight,” said Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n

Professor Wandt says the weeks and months after the start date in September will be telling, and pushback could make way to the Supreme Court. \u201cThere’s no doubt in my mind that there will be challenges in the near future to this new law. Whether or not they’re successful, is a whole other story,” said Wandt.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Governor’s office got back to CNY Central Monday, with a statement saying “Governor Hochul signed landmark legislation to strengthen New York’s gun laws and bolster restrictions on concealed carry weapons. The comprehensive new law\u2014drafted in close collaboration with the Legislature\u2014is devised to align with the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision inNYSRPA v. Bruen and provides licensing officials with relevant information to complete thorough background checks for individuals seeking concealed carry permits.” Hochul’s Office also saying this is one various tools that are now in their toolbox to determine whether an applicant can obtain a gun permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Onondaga County DA on new concealed carry social media review law: “it’s unenforceable” Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick is calling a\u00a0new law\u00a0set to take effect September 1st \u201cunenforceable.\u201d Anyone who wants to apply for a license to carry a concealed weapon in New York State will have to hand over access to their\u00a0social media … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83342,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions\/83342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}