But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog says a Northern California utility went too far by racially profiling Asian communities as it routinely fed customers' power use information to police without requiring a warrant or any suspicion of wrongdoing, in violation of state laws.
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Um, maybe because they're the ones running the grow houses?
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we started getting this fantastic strain of smoke called BC Bud because it came from British Columbia and northern Washington state, and it was grown exclusively by Southeast Asians - Hmong and Montagnard refugees for the most part.
They'd rent houses in nice neighborhoods, park a car or two in the driveway, then install the lights and ventilation. Once the grow was started, they'd have somebody come over once or twice a week to shuffle the cars around in the driveway, mow the yards, shit like that to make the house look occupied.
The San Joaquin Valley has a fairly large population of Southeast Asians and it's just natural that the folks up north would filter down south to do the same thing.
