[ebiskit]

The sheriff & township contracted w/ them to run prison ops, but they seem to have taken over other areas of jurisdictional authority w/o approval of the City Council.

Strange things are certainly afoot at the Circle-K

tahDeetz

[HiTech RedNeck]

An earlier report simply said they had stuck the “official” logos on their cars, and then took them off at the city’s insistence. What this says to me is some way over eager yokel doing the hard hard sell. It is not time for tin foil.

[B-Chan]

Not much on the Tubes about this APF. Almost all of the articles I've been able to find that mention them are from small-town Montana TV stations and papers -- easy targets for viral marketers. I did find this AP article in a two-week-old issue of the SF Examiner:

Mont. jail contract worth $2.6M a year
By: MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
09/18/09 5:50 PM PDT

BILLINGS, MONT. — An obscure California security company was planning a jobs fair next week as it prepared to pay $2.6 million annually to take over a rural Montana jail that the company plans to expand into a military and police training center.

Some of those activities could involve training military and police from overseas — including Afghanistan — to run detention centers and provide security in their home countries, said company representatives and an official in Hardin, the city that built the $27 million jail.

Skepticism lingered because of a refusal by the company, Santa Ana, Calif.-based American Police Force, to say where it would get $30 million it says it will invest in the project.

It's also unclear where the prisoners and trainees would come from.... [Moar]

And again -- what the connection with the royal house of Serbia? If this is for real, it's mighty strange. Anybody in Santa Ana care to visit the company headquarters (1202 East 17th Street, Suite 200, Santa Ana, CA 92701) and check it out?