Fourth Amendment

• Ray Kelly Outlines Measures to Curtail the Illegal Police Stops He Says Are Not Occurring, Jacob Sullum, May 25, 2012
• Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments Over Warrantless Wiretaps, J.D. Tuccille, May 21, 2012
• One Virginia School District Still Demanding Search Warrants, Ed Krayewski, May 21, 2012
• Federal Judge Allows Class Action Challenging the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Program, Jacob Sullum, May 16, 2012
• "I kissed her breasts and nipples, as there was no place for my face to go," Salt Lake City PD Re-Evaluates Vice, Ed Krayewski, May 14, 2012
• Bloomberg Likens the NYPD's 'Stop and Frisk' Program to Random DUI Checkpoints, Jacob Sullum, May 11, 2012
• National Security Letters Are Now Slightly Less Sucky, J.D. Tuccille, May 10, 2012
• Roadblocks For Revenue Go Too Far, Says Kentucky Supreme Court, J.D. Tuccille, May 4, 2012
• Cops in Cruisers Sniff Out Cars Carrying Pot Smokers, Jacob Sullum, May 4, 2012
• Ed Markey Looks Into Warrantless Cellphone Tracking, Jacob Sullum, May 3, 2012
• The ACLU Blogs an Oppressive, Drone-Filled Hypothetical Future, Lucy Steigerwald, May 2, 2012
• Rick Scott's Thirst for Urine Will Remain Unslaked, Jacob Sullum, April 27, 2012
• South Dakota Court Sets Up a Roadblock to Avoiding the Cops, J.D. Tuccille, April 25, 2012
• EU Parliament Approves Data Sharing Deal With U.S., Ed Krayewski, April 20, 2012
• Only Latent Criminals Need Fear BusSafe Sweeps, Jacob Sullum, April 18, 2012
• Fickle Friends of Online Freedom, J.D. Tuccille, April 12, 2012
• Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection, Jacob Sullum, April 11, 2012
• Grad Student Challenges Border Laptop Searches, J.D. Tuccille, April 10, 2012
• Reason Writers on MSNBC: Matt Welch Talks POTUS vs. SCOTUS, the Social-Darwinism Slur, and the Constitution-Shredding War on Crime on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Matt Welch, April 10, 2012
• U.S. Court Gives Thumbs-Up to Snoopy Checkpoints Near-ish the Border, J.D. Tuccille, April 5, 2012
• ACLU Says Police Often Obtain Cellphone Location Data Without Warrants, Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense, Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Probable Cause Generators, Jacob Sullum, March 30, 2012
• Smells Like Multiple Fourth Amendment Violations, Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2012
• Should Police Need a Warrant to Search an Arrestee's Cellphone?, Jacob Sullum, March 2, 2012
• NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Encounters Have Septupled Since Bloomberg Took Office, Jacob Sullum, February 14, 2012
• Federal Jury Says Cops Can't Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters, Jacob Sullum, January 30, 2012
• Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Rand Paul & the TSA With Judge Napolitano, Matt Welch, January 27, 2012
• Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy, Jacob Sullum, January 24, 2012
• SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, January 23, 2012
• Franky Gets His Day in Court, Jacob Sullum, January 12, 2012
• Don't Come Sniffing Around Here Unless You Have a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, January 4, 2012
• Sir, Your Perfectly Legal Plants Smell Like Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, December 27, 2011
• Predator Drones in Domestic Law Enforcement, Brian Doherty, December 12, 2011
• Florida Drug Search Claims Flunk the Smell Test, Jacob Sullum, December 8, 2011
• NRA Joins ACLU in Urging SCOTUS to Let Victims of an Unconstitutional Gun Search Sue the Cops, Jacob Sullum, December 7, 2011
• 'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick', Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?, Jacob Sullum, November 16, 2011
• Michigan Sheriff: Random Narcotics Checkpoints Are Totally Constitutional, Lucy Steigerwald, October 21, 2011
• NY State Senator Not Quite Sure Which Constitutional Amendment Doesn't Apply When Parents Go Looking for Guns in Their Daughters' Jewelry Boxes, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 3, 2011
• Appeals Court Rules In Favor of Nude Body Scanners; Against Privacy Advocates and Other Decent Peoples, Mike Riggs, July 15, 2011
• Washington Attempts to Make us All Culpable for Online Child Pornography, Matt Welch, July 12, 2011
• No Right to Resist Rogue Cops in Indiana, Jacob Sullum, May 18, 2011
• This Area Is Certified Fourth Amendment-Free, Radley Balko, February 18, 2011
• Supreme Court To Decide If Smell of Pot, Suspicious Sounds Merit Warrantless Entry, Radley Balko, January 13, 2011
• California Supreme Court: Cell Phone Searches Don't Need a Warrant, Brian Doherty, January 5, 2011
• Electronic Surveillance: Good and Bad Sides, Brian Doherty, November 18, 2010
• 10 Rules for Dealing with Police Now Free on YouTube, Radley Balko, April 9, 2010
• On Flexing Your Rights. Or At Least Humbly Attempting To Hold on to Them., Radley Balko, March 29, 2010
• Sensible "Cyber War" Preparation, Or Just More Government Snooping?, Brian Doherty, March 5, 2010
• Police Seek Warrantless Searches of Smartphones, Ben Sanders, February 19, 2010
• Flexing Your Rights, Radley Balko, December 9, 2009
• Don't Mess With Ron Paul's Army, Matt Welch, November 11, 2009