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It’s too bad law enforcement don’t seem to be held to any standards at all, then maybe folks who are not generally equipped to make legal determinations won’t be accountable for erring just because an unscrupulous officer or prosecutor misleads and/or intimidates them.

Pharmacists are more overworked than video store clerks. By a huge margin. They're also not treated well by the major pharmacy chains.

Or perhaps the issue is law enforcement criminally intimidating these pharmacists and clerks. Seems they are the only ones that aren't held to any standard.

Lawyers have to fight to get that to apply for digital video. So it would take a specific law to make that carry through to pharmacies.

And for that matter, I doubt the video store law applies to bookstores.

(A judge confirmation process ran in trouble because of video rental records - so a law was written ... which addresses only video rental. For maximum inefficiency or something.)

Too bad they aren’t paid or treated at a higher standard.