Daily Archives: April 27, 2018

techdirt: Appeals Court: Driving Attentively While Black Isn’t Probable Cause For A Traffic Stop

techdirt: Appeals Court: Driving Attentively While Black Isn’t Probable Cause For A Traffic Stop by Tim Cushing:

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Reason.com: The Golden State Killer and Your Genetic Privacy

Reason.com: The Golden State Killer and Your Genetic Privacy by Ronald Bailey “Any right of privacy in commercial DNA testers?” This was inevitable.

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Vice: ICE Agents Should Know the Law, but They’re Fine with Warrantless Raids

Vice: ICE Agents Should Know the Law, but They’re Fine with Warrantless Raids by Eoin Higgins: A leaked training manual says officers should be familiar with Fourth Amendment procedures. So what explains their aggressive actions on a New York farm?

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The Verge: A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project

The Verge: A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project By Ali Winston and Ingrid Burrington:

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NYTimes: Women Describe Invasive Strip Searches on Visits to City Jails

NYTimes: Women Describe Invasive Strip Searches on Visits to City Jails by Jan Ransom:

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NJ: Video of stop showed voluntariness of consent; fact officer mentioned getting a warrant was justified on facts

The video of the stop showed the consent was valid. At first it was denied, then it was granted. The officer’s mention of a search warrant was justified because of the smell of marijuana, and that did not make the … Continue reading

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NY3: Forced prison body cavity search was unreasonable

Defendant’s forced body cavity search in prison was unreasonable under all the circumstances. People v. Holton, 2018 NY Slip Op 02836, 2018 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2830 (3d Dist. Apr. 26, 2018):

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D.D.C.: Drug testing school teachers violated 4A

Drug testing of some school teachers in the District of Columbia violated the reasonable expectation of privacy and didn’t serve government interests. There was no indication one group of teachers (really small kids) even deserved to be included for a … Continue reading

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