{"id":63905,"date":"2026-04-25T11:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63905"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:28:00","slug":"de-doesnt-violate-4a-to-have-bodycam-on-during-sw-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63905","title":{"rendered":"DE: Doesn&#8217;t violate 4A to have bodycam on during SW execution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It doesn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment for a police officer to execute a search warrant with a bodycam on. Defendant cites no authority, either. <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/Opinions\/Download.aspx?id=394760\">State v. Williams<\/a>, 2026 Del. Super. LEXIS 183 (Apr. 22, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Second, Defendant has provided no legal authority for the proposition that conducting a search authorized by a duly issued search warrant while recording the search with bodycam devices is illegal. In fact, it is not illegal, and doing so serves to protect the police from future claims that they violated the rights of the property owner during the execution of a search warrant. The contemporaneous recording by law enforcement memorializes the search for potential future review. Defendant has failed to articulate any illegal behavior by law enforcement in searching the residence, and he has not claimed that the police exceeded their authority in seizing property not authorized in the search warrant. In fact, the record reflects that no property was seized. Defendant&#8217;s claim is meritless, and he has failed to demonstrate prejudice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment for a police officer to execute a search warrant with a bodycam on. Defendant cites no authority, either. State v. Williams, 2026 Del. Super. LEXIS 183 (Apr. 22, 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63905","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=63905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63912,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63905\/revisions\/63912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}