Felisa Cardona reports: Sex offenders don’t want the government to know what they are doing online or posting on news and social-networking sites and intend to challenge e-mail registry requirements to the U.S. Supreme Court. Colorado and other states are taking notice of legal challenges to sex-offender registry database requirements and recently scaled back e-mail…
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Wikileaks, Twitter, and Our Outdated Electronic Surveillance Laws
Julian Sanchez writes: This weekend, we learned that the U.S. government last month demanded records associated with the Twitter accounts of several supporters of WikiLeaks—including American citizens and an elected member of Iceland’s parliament. As the New York Times observes, the only remarkable thing about the government’s request is that we’re learning about it, thanks to efforts by…
NY: Judge rules Dept. of Education can release names, job rankings of public school teachers
Jose Martinez reports: A Manhattan judge ruled Monday that the Department of Education can release the names and job rankings of more than 12,000 public school teachers. The decision by Justice Cynthia Kern is a blow to the United Federation of Teachers, which tried to block the DOE from making the internal ratings system public….
Fifth Circuit Permits Warrantless Government Searches Based on Previous Private Search Not Known To Police
Orin Kerr writes: Last week the Fifth Circuit handed down a significant decision on the “private search” doctrine in Fourth Amendment law, United States v. Oliver. Oliver permits warrantless searches under the private search doctrine even when the police who conducted the search didn’t know about the private search. I don’t think the private search doctrine can…