ERAL GUIDELINES TO AMAGIATE RIGHTS

The Erician Rights Advocacy League fights tirelessly to protect the rights of all Ericians from legal misconduct by governments, public organizations, employers, and the Amagium.

Asfalis citizens and Amagia alike rely on the Amagium’s Peacekeeping officers to protect us from monstrum and the misuse of magic, regardless of an individual’s background, nationality, and personal preferences. Stay safe and cooperate with peacekeeping officers by following these guidelines.

IF AMAGIATE PEACEKEEPING OFFICERS APPROACH YOU FOR QUESTIONING:

1. Remain calm and do not attempt to flee, resist, or argue with the peacekeeping officers, even if you are innocent or believe the officer has violated your rights.

2. Keep your hands where the officers can clearly see them, and do not make sudden movements.

3. You may ask if you are free to leave. If the officer provides a verbal indication that you may leave, silently walk away. Otherwise, the officer may detain you.

Detainment Versus Arrest

• According to regional Amagiate Law within the Erician Continent, a suspect may be detained for up to 72 hours before they must be charged with a crime or discharged from custody.
• If detained, an officer must explain that you are wanted in relation to an ongoing amagiate criminal investigation, but no further explanation is required. Probable cause for detainment varies from territory to territory, but clear evidence of a crime (the presence illegal artifice, incriminating magical residues, contraband, or injured parties) generally excuses the maximum amount of detainment necessary.
• While detained, the Amagiate Peacekeeping Force is responsible for the detainee’s wellbeing, and must accommodate their dietary, biological, and medical needs. If a detainee requires any form of medical treatment, it shall take immediate precedence over interrogations, and be held in the confidence of the detainee’s medical professionals. Other considerations include three meals per twenty-four-hour period, three periods of undisturbed eight-hour rest, and bathroom breaks upon request. Furthermore, the detainee cannot be magically or physically restrained until charged with a crime.

NOTE: If you are detained longer than 72 hours, or any of these accommodations are not met during detainment, have your lawyer contact the ERAL immediately!

4. If you are placed under arrest, you have a right to know why. The officer must provide you with an amagiate penal code and name of a crime before they can physically restrain you unless you attempt to flee or otherwise resist arrest.

Common Amagiate Penal Code Ranges with Example Charges:

• 100 Contra Spiritus: crimes associated with the misuse of exempt magic
  • 101 Series – Reckless Use of Exempt Sorcery
  • 102 Series – Reckless Use of Exempt Contract Magic
  • 103A – Dolomachy: Physical harassment with exempt magic
    
• 200 Possession & Trafficking: crimes pertaining to magical contraband.
  • 201 Series – Possession of illicit faen materials
  • 204A – Holding Unprescribed Exempt Alchemical Substance
    
• 300 Entropathy: crimes pertaining to dangerous artifice and enchantments
  • 301 Series – Creation or possession of illegal artifice
  • 302 Series – Ticket or Fines for dangerously quirked artifice
  • 320 – Willful negligence of artifice maintenance
    
• 400 Transgression: laws pertaining to non-violent use of non-exempt magic
  • 401 Series – Magically-assisted theft
  • 404 Series – Using illegal glamour magic to disguise one’s self
    
• 500 Malefaction: laws pertaining to violent use of non-exempt magic
  • 501 Series – magically-assisted assault
  • 513A – Magically assisted homicide

5. After being provided with a penal code and charge, you may request an Amagiate Attorney. If you do not have, or cannot afford to hire an Amagiate Attorney, you may request a Public Advocate be assigned to you.

6. Once arrested, you are entitled to make a phone call. Peacekeeping officers can and often will listen in on conversations that are not protected by client or patient confidentiality privileges. Once you have requested a phone call, the arresting officers must give you access to a phone as soon as circumstances permit.

YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT

You have a right to remain silent and cannot be punished for refusing to answer questions under regional and global amagiate law. Anything you say without an amagiate lawyer present may be used against you in an amagiate court hearing.

• In Parts of the Republic of Texas, Republic of Mexico, and the Gulf Federation, you may be legally required to provide Peacekeeping Officers with a first and last name registered to an asfalis government.

CONSENT TO SEARCH

You are never required to consent to a search of yourself, your belongings, or your property unless peacekeeping officers present you with a warrant presented by a Juris Lexis. That said, amagiate peacekeepers may pat down your clothing if they suspect you are armed.

If an officer informs you that they will be doing a “pat down,” do not resist. Officers may also ask to view your amagiate license records, but they cannot force you to comply with a record search unless you are also being detained. Even if you do consent to any form of search, officers’ findings may affect you in court.

If an officer senses illegal magic on your person, either via urdoscope or their own wyrd, they may search your immediate personal effects for the source of said magic.

NOTE: If a peacekeeping officer searches your personal effects under the pretense of sensing illegal magic without an urdoscope reading and they discover nothing, contact the ERAL as this can constitute a rights violation under certain circumstances.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE STOPPED IN A VEHICLE

1. Stop the craft in a safe place as quickly as possible. Turn off the engine, turn on any internal lights, and open the driver’s side or cabin windows.

2. Both drivers and passengers have the right to remain silent. If you are a passenger, you can ask if you are free to leave. If the officer says yes, sit silently or calmly leave. Even if the officer says you cannot leave, you have the right to remain silent.

3. If you are the driver, upon request, show the Peacekeeping Officers your driving credential, registration, and proof of insurance.

4. Peacekeeping officers may look inside your vehicle through windows or open air, but you can refuse to consent to an interior search (including the trunk, glove box, and other closed compartments), unless the officer presents you with a warrant, or has cause for “reasonable suspicion.” (Such causes include visibly quirked artifice, a report on your vehicles’ license plate, the presence of harmed parties, or suspicious materials in the visual search.

CITIZENSHIP, VISAS, AND IMMIGRATION STATUS
Amagiate Peacekeeping Officers cannot demand to see proof of citizenship or immigration status as it is irrelevant to magical crime.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE WITNESSING AMAGIATE BRUTALITY

1. Never attempt to physically or magically intervene in any peacekeeping activity.

2. Stand at a safe distance and use your phone to record videos of the interaction. Provided you do not obstruct or interfere with officers, you have the right to record events occurring in public spaces.

3. Do not attempt to record officers with a concealed device. Peacekeepers do not have a legally protected expectation of privacy, but other people may have privacy rights requiring you to provide notice if you are recording. Therefore, you must actively make sure all parties are aware that you are recording the interaction.

4. Peacekeeping officers cannot confiscate your device or demand to review its media without a warrant. If an officer orders you to stop recording, remind them that recording police activity is an asfalis right in Ericia under amagiate law. That said, an officer may attempt to arrest you illegally for recording. While this arrest would be unlawful, you will need to weigh the personal risks associated with arrest (health, potential costs of legal representation, and time,) against the value of continuing to record events.

5. Whether you record the incident or not, write down everything you can remember from the incident and try to gain as much supplementary information as possible. Include the number of officers present, officers’ last names, license identification numbers, vehicle ID numbers, and any use of force, weapons, or magic.

NOTE:  If you are unable to communicate with the individual being apprehended, and wish to provide your findings and recordings, contact the ERAL. We can help put you in touch with the proper parties.