Ellen Nakashima reports: Criminal defense lawyers, press photographers and a university student are challenging the Obama administration’s search policy permitting officers at U.S. borders to detain travelers’ laptop computers and examine their contents even without suspecting the traveler of wrongdoing. In a federal lawsuit to be filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York,…
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Article: Can a Password Save Your Cell Phone from the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine
Adam M. Gershowitz of the University of Houston Law Center has an article in a forthcoming issue of the Iowa Law Review, “Password Protected? Can a Password Save Your Cell Phone from the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine?” Here’s the abstract: Over the last few years, dozens of courts have authorized police to conduct warrantless…
Border Sweeps in North Reach Miles Into U.S
Nina Bernstein reports: The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens who cannot produce satisfactory immigration papers. […]…
Department of Homeland Security Sued Over Secret Traveller Files
Matt Smith reports: San Francisco travel writer Edward Hasbrouck has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over what he says is the agency’s refusal to give a complete accounting of secret files detailing his numerous border crossings around the world. “This is not something I’m doing lightly, or that I’m doing every day, or…