{"id":23628,"date":"2016-09-08T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23628"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T23:48:07","slug":"philly-should-ex-philly-cop-suspected-of-sharing-child-porn-be-forced-to-divulge-computer-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23628","title":{"rendered":"Philly: Should ex-Philly cop suspected of sharing child porn be forced to divulge computer passwords?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philly: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20160908_Should_ex-Philly_cop_suspected_of_sharing_child_porn_be_forced_to_divulge_computer_passwords_.html\">Should ex-Philly cop suspected of sharing child porn be forced to divulge computer passwords?<\/a> by Chris Palmer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If police think someone has child pornography on his computer, should investigators be able to force him to provide his passwords &#8211; or would that violate his constitutional rights against self-incrimination?<\/p>\n<p>That issue was at the heart of an appellate hearing Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia in the case of Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia police sergeant, who has not been charged with a crime but who has been in custody for nearly a year in contempt of court for failing to unlock his encrypted electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you asking us to ignore the Fourth Amendment?&#8221; asked U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of two amendments the judges regularly referenced during the hearing. The other was the Fifth Amendment, which Rawls&#8217; attorneys believe protects his right to keep his passwords to himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philly: Should ex-Philly cop suspected of sharing child porn be forced to divulge computer passwords? by Chris Palmer: If police think someone has child pornography on his computer, should investigators be able to force him to provide his passwords &#8211; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23630,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions\/23630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}