Lindsay Cohen reports: A controversial new bill would require suspects to give a DNA sample as soon as they’re arrested, but some people argue the law would be unconstitutional. Opponents of the bill say it could violate Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure, but supporters say public safety should outweigh that risk. Read…
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Should officials be allowed to search students’ bras for drugs? NC Supreme Court hears case
Martha Waggoner of Associated Press has more about the case argued before the North Carolina Supreme Court yesterday involving a student search. From her reporting, it sounds like this was one of those “search everyone” scenarios where there was no reasonable suspicion to search any one student. There also seems to have been discriminatory searching…
NYC: Stop-and-Frisks Hit Record in 2011
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…
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…