Is Warrantless GPS Tracking Legal?
If the police want to search your house, they need a warrant. If they want to follow you around in an unmarked car, they don't. But what about GPS technology? It's highly accurate, virtually effortless...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court on GPS Tracking
This week the Supreme Court decided a case called US v Jones about the constitutionality of warrantless GPS tracking. Bob talks to Orin Kerr, George Washington University law professor and blogger for...
View ArticleThe Perils of Filming Police
It is not illegal to film police, but there have been several instances of citizens being arrested because the police didn't want to appear on camera. Bob talks to Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel...
View ArticleDNA Samples and Privacy
In over half of U.S. states and on the federal level law enforcement, after arresting you but before you’ve been convicted of any crime, can take a DNA sample from you. This week the U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleConfiscating a Journalist's Documents
Audrey Hudson is a journalist for conservative news outlets like the Colorado Observer, NewsMax and The Washington Times. This August, while authorities executed a search warrant on her home on an...
View ArticleJourney to the Center of the NSA
Last Sunday's 60 Minutes profile of the NSA was almost universally reviled. But 60 Minutes is not the only outlet that has spent time at the agency's headquarters in Maryland. Brooke talks to Daniel...
View ArticleBronx Students Learn Their Search and Seizure Rights
Yasmeen KhanAll dressed up, with legal arguments in hand, dozens of seventh graders recently analyzed the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a competition overseen by a panel of three judges....
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