from the as-it-should dept Qualified immunity has been stretched to cover a wide variety of rights violations, law enforcement misconduct, and excessive force deployments. Every so often, a federal court will refuse to extend this courtesy to sued officers, but these decisions are relative rarities. Every so often, officers engage in such egregious violations that […]
from the doesn’t-appear-to-have-worked dept Reverse warrants are the new tech-related toy law enforcement is experimenting with. Oddly, a lot of what’s come to light so far originates in the Midwest, an area not exactly known for early adoption. Outside of the NYPD and feds confirming they use warrants to seek a list of possible suspects
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Police will no longer be able to access cell phone location data without a warrant. That’s a ruling that the US Supreme Court handed down today, in a victory for privacy advocates. The 5-4 decision (.pdf) brings mobile phone location within the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The underlying case involved
Wikimedia Commons The FBI being on their way to the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton with a warrant before the house caught on fire is fake news. There is no truth to a report that the Clintons were about to be given a warrant when their Chappaqua, N.Y., property caught fire. Where did this
