4th amendment

Creepy AI-powered Surveillance Cams in 5,000 Cities and Counting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S3bcS_SSUE {Institute for Justice | 16 December 2024} Not long ago, if police wanted to know where someone drove, they would have to follow that person for days, taking significant resources. But...

A spate of items involving "wrong house" police actions have been posted recently, so I figure a thread on the subject is called for. Post (or cross-link) 'em if you got 'em. Cops Raid WRONG House & Scare Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr7f2q2Hxp0 {The Civil Rights Lawyer | 10 May 2024}

RELATED: The 4th Amendment & warrantless searches Appeals Court Rules That Cops Can Physically Make You Unlock Your Phone The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station...

SPLIT FROM: FISA reauthorization & Section 702 warrantless surveillance The fourth Amendment does not require a warrant for searches. Here is what it actually says:

It's time to update my 9 month ongoing court fight. As of the 24th of February the district state court had a hearing for dismissal requested by the Minnesota Attorney Generals office. The State entered my property with an ex parte order and shot on sight all my sheep supposedly exposed to...

This is a update of the thread "The USDA wants to kill my sheep". since I posted that thread the Minnesota board of animal health (BAH) and I corresponded by letter, in which I told them their Scrapie test results were full of errors. Scrapie is a fatal disease that all sheep that contract it...

I just had a visit from the USDA VET Monday April 20th. They took a blood test of my original sheep I bought from a shepherd in Wisconsin,which the USDA claimed one of his sheep tested positive for scrapie. This farmer has been raising sheep for 30 years and none of his sheep ever had...

A Residence With Locking Doors And A Working Toilet Is All That's Needed To Justify A No-Knock Warrant XNN

Konni Burton March 13 at 6:09pm · Today was the last day to file bills in the Texas legislature! We ended on a high note with our last bill receiving seventeen joint authors! SB 1864 protects our personal liberties by providing that a warrant must be issued before police can search your...

So on Thursday, the ATF raided my house, CLAIMING they had reason to believe I had a stock pile of weapons in my home. Quite the contrary, I don't own or possess a single one. In Texas, even though I am a convicted felon, it is legal for me to own a firearm that must stay in my home, so long as...

Apparently, "reasonable" interpretation is based on whatever happens, not the letter of the law. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/former-cia-and-nsa-director-nsa-doesnt-just-listen-to-bad-people/385007/

Sotomayor to Justice Department Lawyer: 'We Can't Keep Bending the Fourth Amendment to the Resources of Law Enforcement'

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Trying to Hack Your iPhone Did you guess correctly? Are you shocked? Me neither.

Highlights: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/

Feds can’t get around 4th Amendment via automated data capture OAKLAND, Calif.—A federal judge spent over four hours on Friday questioning lawyers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and from the Department of Justice in an ongoing digital surveillance-related lawsuit that has...

Supreme Court Sides With Police In 4th Amendment Case Arising from Officer’s ‘Mistake of Law’ SCOTUS siding with the police state? Inconceivable! http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/15/supreme-court-sides-with-police-in-4th-a Ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you're a cop.

Florida statute requiring suspicionless drug testing was unconstitutional in violation of the Fourth Amendment Civil Rights - Florida statute requiring suspicionless drug testing was unconstitutional in violation of the Fourth Amendment Encouraging employability, protecting children, and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_EbfbbYSYQ

http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/11/warrantless-location-tracking-unconstitutional/

Police to perform warrantless beverage inspections on ‘anybody’ visiting Florida beaches TAMPA, FL — With the help of new technology and federal grant money, police are preparing to warrantlessly search people’s refreshments as they visit the beaches of Florida. “We can go up to anybody we...