According to a motion the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, Nguyen and Decker are only two of more than 33,000 Sacramento-area people who have been flagged to the sheriff’s department by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the electricity provider for the region. SMUD called the customers out for using what it and department investigators said were suspiciously high amounts of electricity indicative of illegal cannabis farming.
As an old person, I recall this same story making the headlines in the late 1970’s. Next headline will include advice on how not to raise suspicion. I assume solar and wind are the method that is replacing diesel generators.