Susan Brenner discusses an aspect of the search warrant and inspection of computer belonging to David C. Kernell, the young man who was subsequently convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account: A recent decision from a federal district court addresses an issue I hadn’t seen before: whether searching malware on the suspect’s computer was…
Category: U.S.
Civil liberties groups file suit against Arizona’s new immigration law
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports on the anticipated challenge to Arizona’s new “papers, please” law: Arizona’s controversial immigration law “will cause widespread racial profiling and will subject many persons of color … to unlawful interrogations, searches, seizures and arrests,” according to a federal class action filed by the ACLU, the NAACP and other national…
CT: Massive Bysiewicz database may violate law
Mary E. O’Leary reports: The large database compiled by Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, which is the subject of a whistleblower complaint, appears to violate a statute that forbids disclosing the home addresses of public safety and court personnel. A review of the 36,000 names kept by her office includes more than 750 firefighters,…
Release of Random Drug Testing Results Raise HIPAA Challenge
I posted this to PHIprivacy.net, but since it also involves a workplace situation, thought I’d post it here too: Curt Varone writes: Fire Lieutenant Shawn Baptist was fired last year from the Zephyrhills, Florida Fire Department after he allegedly failed a random drug test on February 23, 2009. He is challenging the termination as well…