A Florida appeals court has reversed its opinion in a student privacy case, ruling last month that the college does not have to disclose to a professor the name of a student who sent an email complaining of his classroom behavior and teaching methods. The ruling, issued by Florida’s First District Court of Appeals in…
Category: U.S.
The Boston Marathon bombings and the march to total video surveillance of Americans.
Joe Cadillic, a frequent submitter to this blog and a private investigator in Massachusetts, expresses his concerns in a blog post: Surveillance cameras — which have proliferated in London, Chicago and elsewhere — may take on new allure. Informal surveillance by private citizens may proliferate as well; the FBI says it expects the public to…
The Navigator: Speak out now on full-body scanners
Christopher Elliott reports: In 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the TSA to engage in what’s known as notice-and-comment rulemaking on its use of the technology. You can share your opinion on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking at the Federal Register Web site (www.federalregister.gov) until June 24. In…
House-to-House Searches and the Fourth Amendment
Recent events in Boston inspired this blog post by Orin Kerr: … Assume the police enter a home without consent searching for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; does the entry violate the Fourth Amendment? The answer depends on whether such home entries are “reasonable” under the Fourth Amendment, which requires a case-by-case balancing of the government’s interest in making…