Unfortunately it was a small step from the DOJ using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to invade your home and search with out a warrant, to little brother wanting the same power. After all power is jealous of itself.
FWIW, FISA came to reality in 1994 under President Clinton:

"The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,"

Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified before the Senate
Intelligence Committee on July 14, 1994,

"and that the President may,
as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorn...

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Unfortunately it was a small step from the DOJ using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to invade your home and search with out a warrant, to little brother wanting the same power. After all power is jealous of itself.
FWIW, FISA came to reality in 1994 under President Clinton:

"The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,"

Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified before the Senate
Intelligence Committee on July 14, 1994,

"and that the President may,
as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney General."

But I digress, this is about a municipality wanting the same authority. If I grasp the concept correctly the Attorney General can delegate this "right" to the state under the auspice of homeland security.

Heh, folks call me a nut....there is no conspiracy it's all right out there in the open, no need to hide in secret to destroy the founding documents of this Republic, we are handing them (this and other Administrations) the sharpened knife.

"Any people that would give up
liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor
safety." Benjamin Franklin

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience
to God." Thomas Jefferson