Can you help me with the big dog sniffing in my yard?

I have a problem. The big, bad dog down the street is trying to intimidate me.
Maybe I should take a page out the book written by Sheriff Norman Dalton in Tennessee.

Alex Friedmann, editor for the Prison Legal News, is working on a story about complaints from inmates at the Marshall County Jail in Tennessee. Sheriff Norman Dalton was having none of it. He denied the records request, went to his home to intimidate him … I mean “verify residency,” ordered a criminal history check on Friedmann and even called the Department of Homeland Security.
WSMV reports that in court, the sheriff acknowledged these intimidation tactics.

“I think that’s very alarming and very disturbing that a law enforcement officer can do a background check, and in this case actually drove in to check my residence in person just because I filed a public records request with his agency,” Friedmann said.

He claims the sheriff is going to great lengths to cover up misconduct at the jail.
After the court hearing, the sheriff’s attorney said Friedmann has the right to the records.

Using the Department of Homeland Security as a tool of intimidation and harassment against Americans is only a small piece to crush reporters and others looking to uncover official misconduct
(Robert Gehl, downtrend.com)

"People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example."

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