<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Just found this resolution I helped to write in 2003. It was adopted by the Board. Someone asked me for a copy, so passing it along.</span></p><div>Karina</div><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 13.0px Arial"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>RESOLUTION TO DEFEND THE BILL OF RIGHTS and CIVIL LIBERTIES </b></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 36px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>•</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Mendocino County 2003</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS the County of Mendocino recognizes the Constitution of the United States of America to be the supreme law of the land, which all public servants are sworn to uphold, superseding all administrative rules, local ordinances, state statutes, federal laws, treaties, and executive orders;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS the County of Mendocino has a long and proud tradition of upholding the free exercise and enjoyment of the unalienable rights granted to all <i>natural persons </i>by the the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS in November, 1974, in response to the gross intelligence agencies abuses of the 1960’s, California voters overwhelmingly amended the Constitution of the State of California to provide a ‘right to privacy’, </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS the County of Mendocino affirms its strong opposition to terrorism, but also affirms that any efforts to end terrorism not be waged at the expense of the essential civil and human rights of the people of Mendocino, the United States and of the world;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act <i>expands the “authority”* of the government to detain and investigate citizens and non-citizens and to engage in electronic surveillance, and threatens the ability of the people of Mendocino County to exercise their rights to liberty, privacy, due process, and other civil rights and liberties guaranteed under the California and US Constitution;</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS the County of Mendocino recognizes that such infringement of the constitutionally guaranteed rights of any natural person, under the color of law, is an abuse of power, a breach of the public trust, a misappropriation of public resources, a violation of civil rights and is beyond the scope of legitimate governmental authority;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS, we recognize that democracy requires eternal vigilance against the corruption of power, and that the protection and preservation of our cherished Rights is the duty of every Citizen; </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">WHEREAS, over (24) other communities around the country have passed similar resolutions reinforcing local efforts to support and defend the legal and human rights of their residents;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the County of Mendocino declares its firm committment to the protection of civil rights and civil liberties for all its residents and affirms its commitment to embody democracy and to embrace, defend and uphold the inalienable rights and fundamental liberties granted under the United States and California State Constitutions;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that local law enforcement continue to preserve and uphold resident’s freedom of speech, assembly, association, and privacy, the right to counsel and due process in judicial proceedings, and protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, even if requested to do otherwise by federal or state law enforcement agencies acting under the <i>color of law;</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i> </i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call on all public servants to act in the spirit of our state and federal constitutions, refusing secrecy and reporting regularly and publicly all activities commited under the USA Patriot Act..........</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Mendocino county is <i>committed to avoiding discrimination and </i>racial profiling in law enforcement and <i>in all functions of county government, and to vigorously upholding the constitutionally protected rights of privacy and of all persons to peacefully protest and express their political views without fear of governmental interference or retaliation.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that our Congressional delegation is petitioned to actively monitor the implementation of the USA Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act, and to actively work for the repeal of those portions which violate the Constitution and Bill of Rights;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that upon passage, the County Clerk shall send copies of this resolution to all local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, the Governor’s office, our Congressional representatives, and to the President of the United States.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the provisions of this Resolution shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this resolution is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the Constitution of the United States or of the State of California, or the applicability thereof to any agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this resolution and the applicability thereof to any other agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. </i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>********************************************************************************************* </i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">*”authority” - i.e. by what authority? we question your authority, “By what authority do you claim such ‘powers’?” We do not recognize your authority to use such powers, to act contrary to the constitution. We declare you to have stepped outside your legal bounds, and to have betrayed and trespassed on the Rights of the Sovereign People.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">“All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and <b><i>privacy</i></b>.”</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Article 1, Section 1; Constitution of the State of California</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">*********************************************************************************************i</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 19px; text-indent: -19px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION ATTACHMENTS:</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-Oath to defend constitution from all enemies within and without.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-Definitions: color of law, supreme law of the land, inalienable rights, declaration of independence as part of the “organic laws” of the U.S., citizen vs. Citizen</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-PATRIOT acronym-”Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism”</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-Quotes from other resolutions, clarifying specific points.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-relevant City/county policies</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>CITES:</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>- </i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Richarson V. Selsky</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>, 5 F616 (2nd Cir. 1993) Public officials are entitled to qualified immunity from liability for civil damages so long as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional right.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>- </i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Luck V. Mazzone</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>, 52 F3d 475 (2nd Cir. 1995) Public employee does not relinquish First Amendment rights to comment on matters of public interest by virtue of government employment.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-</i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Davis V. Ectir County, Texas,</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i> 40 F3d 777 (5th Cir. 1994)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i> </i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Rankin V. McPherson</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>, 483 US 378, 97 LED2d 315, 107 SCt 2891 (1987)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Speech by public employees on public issues occupies highest rung of hierarchy of First Amendment values.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-</i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Bivens V. Six Unknown Agents</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>, 403 US 388, 29 LEd2d 619, 91 SCt 1999 (1970)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Supreme Court held that government agents may beheld liable for violating constitutional rights. When a government agent acts in an unconstitutional manner he becomes liable for money damages.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>-</i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Dugan V. Rank</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>, 372 US 609, 10 LEd2d 15, 83 SCt 999 (1963)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>There are two instances when the plaintiff can sue the United States directly:</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i> 1) Action by an officer beyond his statutorily defined powers; 2) where the powers or the manner of execution are unconstitutional.</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; text-indent: -16px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div></body></html>