Marc Perrusquia reports: Thirty-two years after a federal consent decree banned political surveillance at the Memphis Police Department, the agency has incorporated the order’s requirements into its policy and procedure manual. Police Director Larry Godwin distributed a memo Monday to all personnel advising them of the new policy forbidding political surveillance — the collection of…
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St Kilda AFL captain Nick Riewoldt plans legal action against Channel 7
Anthony Dowsley and Ruth Lamperd report the latest in a scandal that seems to have started when a teenage girl obtained nude and semi-nude pictures of members of the St Kilda football team. A member of the team has stated that he took the pictures and that they were obtained from his laptop without his…
Use of Night-Vision Goggles Not A Fourth Amendment Search
Orin Kerr writes: So holds a state court in People v. Lieng, 2010 Cal. App. LEXIS 2106 (1st Dist. December 14, 2010), distinguishing the infrared thermal imaging device used in Kyllo v. United States: Kyllo is inapplicable to this case. First, night goggles are commonly used by the military, police and border patrol, and they are available…
TSA’s random opening of luggage to swab for explosives was reasonable, and it found child pornography
FourthAmendment.com provides excerpts from a recent Florida ruling in Higerd v. State concerning TSA “administrative searches” of luggage where there is no suspicion (i.e., a “random” search). John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: TSA random search of a suitcase at Pensacola airport for swabbing of exterior and contents for explosives resulted in a “plain view” of child…