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Mendocino County files motion to deny Feds subpoenas. Go Mendo!


https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_...sed-by-growers

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Feds days are NUMBERED!
On the pot issue anyways..

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Ukiah Daily Journal

The county of Mendocino was due in federal court Friday to address its motion to quash subpoenas from a federal grand jury for the county's medical marijuana records, but the date was reset to Jan. 29, Mendocino County Counsel Tom Parker said Friday.
The county and the U.S. Attorney's Office agreed on the new hearing date, set for 2:30 p.m. in Courtroom 3 of the Northern District Court in San Francisco, according to Parker.

The postponement comes at the same time as the county announced another step to combat the subpoenas, which goes before the Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting.
The subpoenas came Oct. 23 from the U.S. Attorney's Northern District Office, and asked for "any and all records" -- including financial records -- for the county's medical marijuana cultivation ordinance, codified as Chapter 9.31 of the Mendocino County Code, from Jan. 1, 2010 to the present. The subpoenas covered all types of communication regarding 9.31, including with third-party medical marijuana garden inspectors and the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors.

The subpoenas were delivered to Auditor-Controller Meredith Ford, Sheriff Tom Allman, Sheriff's Office Financial Manager Norman Thurston, Sheriff's Capt. Randy Johnson -- who oversaw the county's erstwhile medical marijuana garden inspection program -- and the "custodian of records."

The county announced Dec. 11 that it had hired San Francisco attorney William Osterhoudt to help represent
the county regarding the subpoenas, and announced the week before Christmas that it had filed the motion to quash the subpoenas on the grounds that they are "overbroad and burdensome" in scope, and are an "improper intrusion" on the county's and the state's ability to govern its citizens.

Under 9.31 -- developed originally in 2008 -- collectives used to be able to get permits to grow up to 99 medical marijuana plants from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, an exemption from the county's 25-plants-per-parcel limit. The program started in June 2010 and ended in March 2012, after the U.S. Attorney's Office threatened legal action against the permitting program.

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider adding a section to 9.31 "clarifying and explicitly stating the Board of Supervisors' legislative intent from 2008 on that information submitted to the County or generated by operation of Chapter 9.31 is confidential and protected medical information under State and Federal law."


Tiffany Revelle can be reached at udjtr@pacific.net, on Twitter @TiffanyRevelle or at 468-3523.