Sean Gardiner reports: New York City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people last year, a record number since the department started producing yearly tallies of the tactic. The total marked a 14% increase over 2010, according to statistics viewed by The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Read more on Wall Street Journal. The report/stats…
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NC High Court To Hear Case Of School Bra Search At Brunswick County Academy
Associated Press reports: The case of a teenager who had to untuck her shirt and pull out her bra with her thumb as part of a search for pills at an alternative school in North Carolina is headed to the state Supreme Court. The court’s decision could determine how constitutional provisions against unreasonable search and…
Congress Left in Dark on DOJ Wiretaps
David Kravets reports: A Senate staffer was tasked two years ago with compiling reports for a subcommittee about the number of times annually the Justice Department employed a covert internet and telephone surveillance method known as pen register and trap-and-trace capturing. But the records, which the Justice Department is required to forward to Congress annually,…
Woman who pleaded Fifth in password case now citing Fourth
Via FourthAmendment.com, this report by John Fontana of ZDNet: A woman who pleaded the Fifth Amendment before being ordered by a federal court to provide a password to decrypt a computer hard drive is appealing the order and now citing the Fourth Amendment. The case drew national attention when the accused, Ramona Fricosu, argued that…