The Denver Post reports that \”police will be allowed to search customer purchase records\” at the Tattered Cover Book Store.
Astute readers will no doubt have already drawn a comparison to the 1998 case involving Kramerbooks & afterwords, the Washington DC bookstore that told Ken Starr to mind his own business. So why has a judge given the police carte blanche this time? Perhaps because they said the magic word: \”drugs\”.
\”If it only takes one or two records from a bookstore to help us eliminate drugs on the street, then so be it,\” said Lt. Lori Moriarty, commander of the North Metro Drug Task Force, which is seeking the Tattered Cover records.
Ah, so that\’s the problem. It\’s not that Prohibition has failed again — it\’s just those pesky booksellers who are protecting readers\’ right to privacy…
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