L.A. Sheriff Who Cut Paris Hilton Loose Holds Deputies’ Computers Hostage

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/07/29/la-sheriff-who-cut-paris-hilton-loose-holds-deputies-computers-hostage/

by James Parks, Jul 29, 2007

The Los Angeles Country sheriff who tried to let Paris Hilton out of jail early has been holding hostage his deputies’ right to information for months without hope of release. The Los Angeles Times reports Sheriff Lee Baca has blocked access from hundreds of department computers to the website of the union that represents his deputies.

The union, the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS), an affiliate of the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association, has been highly critical of Baca’s management of the department. Union President Steve Remige strongly criticized Baca’s decision to release Hilton from jail, a decision that was overturned by a judge. The union also released a survey that showed a large majority of deputies are unhappy with the way Baca is running the department.



Remige told the Times Baca’s decision to block access to the website was spiteful and petty and has hampered deputies’ ability to get information about benefits, overtime and other issues. He said access was cut off in December 2006, and he’s been unable to get Baca to lift the block.

What’s the sheriff afraid of? How can something this petty bother him? What’s that say about him?

FULL story at link.

[ret5hd]

1. A method that SOMETIMES works to get past firewalls:

Find the numeric address of the site you wnat to get to (ie: 192.168.10.222)

use the tool at this website to convert it to a plain decimal number: http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/ipconv.cgi
for example, 192.168.10.222 converts to translates to 3232238302

type that number into the address bar and hit enter.

(note: no number in the 192 domain will ever translate to a valid internet address because it is reserved for private networks)