Day 57.

I’m setting my sights on two issues tomorrow: one big, and one small.

The big: The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Foreign Cyber Threats to the United States. While I won’t be able to watch it live, I’ll follow the news coverage (and transcripts, if necessary) with an eye to how my Senator handles herself. And if you live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire (twice!), New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, or West Virginia, you can too. I’m planning to follow up with her office about this.

The small: my city council is considering something called the Right to Know Act, which would require police officers to do two things: to identify themselves to the public and explain the reason for interactions; and to notify people that they have the right to refuse a search. Similar legislation has been required by the DOJ in consent decrees with police departments in other cities in the past. This Google doc tells me that my City Council member endorsed the RTNA, so I’m calling him to thank him and to urge him to push for its passage tomorrow.