if an agent knocks:
http://security.resist.ca/personal/pdfs/IfanAgentKnocks.pdf
know your rights:
http://www.nlg.org/resources/know_your_rights.htm
from earlier post:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/06/109378.shtml
This information comes from a lawyer...
QUESTION:
if people come to one's door to serve a Grand Jury subpoena (to
testify), and the subpoena is for somebody else besides the person who
answers the door, what is the person who answers the door obligated to
say or do?
ANSWER:
Assuming California State Service rules apply, may be served by any person other than defendant. Holiness Church v. Metropolitan Church Assn. (1910) 12. Cal.App. 445, 448.
My be served only on person to be served. Holiness Church v. Metropolitan Church Assn. (1910) 12. Cal.App. 445, 448.
Person always has right of privacy not to answer door or say anything. Opposite of George Orwell philosophy of many law enforcement agents.
QUESTION:
if there person the subpoena is for is in the house, is the
person answering the door obligated to tell the person they need to come
to the door for a subpoena?
ANSWER:
NO (See U.S. Constitution.)
QUESTION:
if the person is not there does the person
answering have to tell the people serving the subpoena this (they are
likely FBI agents, or have agents with them)?
ANSWER:
NO (See U.S. Constitution.)
QUESTION:
if the person is
traveling or does not live there anymore, does the person answering the
door have to let them know this?
ANSWER:
NO (See U.S. Constitution.)
QUESTION:
also, if FBI agents come to the door, knock and announce themselves, but
do not say they have a warrant, is a person obligated to answer the door
or respond?
ANSWER:
NO (See U.S. Constitution.)
QUESTION:
(there seems to be grand jury subpoenas going around in san diego this
morning, and this is a pertinent question for those whose houses have
not been visited yet, or or will be visited later when they are home if
they aren't now. one account already posted here:
http://www.sdimc.org/ , and it's very, very certain there are more
subpoenas to be issued).
ANSWER:
THE CAVEAT IS DO NOT LIE. DON'T GIVE FALSE INFO. BE RESPECTFUL. GET A WITNESS AND VIDEO CAMERA AND RECORD EVERYTHING. "NO"!!! (See U.S. Constitution.)
stop the new COINTELPRO
