Dallas Cops Not Snooping Through Utility Bills Like Austin PD

On a tip, I Was The State blogger and North Texas attorney Robert Guest discovered and confirmed that Austin police were combing through electricity bills — sans warrants — to justify home invasion searches and asset forfeiture raids. (Indoor pot growers apparently use a lot of electricity. So when cops saw large power usages, the residence was put in the crosshairs.) Austin TV news picked up the story. Guest reports today that Dallas PD and the Dallas sheriff’s department seem to have their priorities better ordered, and neither have such a program. For now.