Houston Officials Trusted a Dishonest Drug Cop for Decades Before His Lies Killed 2 People
But for a disastrous raid, narcotics officer Gerald Goines would have been free to continue framing people he thought were guilty.
But for a disastrous raid, narcotics officer Gerald Goines would have been free to continue framing people he thought were guilty.
The intelligence community is admitting that info from data brokers is sensitive but isn’t accepting hard limits on how to use it.
The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not.
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.
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from purchasing data that they would otherwise need a warrant to obtain.
"I told everybody, 'Do what you want,'" Trump said on Friday night, as he let the deep state win again.
The measure would have required federal agents to get a warrant before searching American communications collected as part of foreign intelligence.
A Section 702 reauthorization moving through Congress could actually weaken privacy protections.
The officers are avoiding accountability after getting qualified immunity.
The Institute for Justice says its data show that a century-old Supreme Court doctrine created a huge exception to the Fourth Amendment.
A lawsuit from the Institute for Justice claims the law violates the Louisiana Constitution.
According to a new lawsuit, NYC's child protection agency almost never obtained warrants when it searched over 50,000 family homes during abuse and neglect investigations.
Tyler Harrington has filed a lawsuit after four police officers burst into his home in the middle of the night.
While not perfect, the move is a step in the right direction for civil liberties.
Officers barged into their house without a warrant, shot their dog, and mocked them, a federal civil rights lawsuit says.
Maybe Brett Hankison shouldn't have been found not guilty, but he was. The Constitution says it should stop there.
Elisabeth Rehn was about to take a bath when police officers kicked down her door, flooded into her apartment, and pointed their guns at her.
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
Court says the warrant was “constitutionally defective” but grants police a “good faith” exception.
The Nixon administration did everything it could to curb antiwar activism. Then the courts said it had gone too far.
Warrantless home invasions are intrusive and dangerous for those on the receiving end.
Snooping through emails, video, and photos isn’t the same as stumbling on containers full of cocaine.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that the practice threatens civil liberties, risks "mission creep," and could increase intelligence agencies' power.
The state court of appeals held previously that unconstitutionally collected evidence could still be used for civil enforcement.
Conservatives who support the bill recognize the conflict between unannounced home invasions and the Second Amendment.
Even though a family pediatrician said she had "zero concerns," child welfare services still seized Josh Sabey's and Sarah Perkins' two young children. It took four months for the couple to regain custody.
Our mobile devices constantly snitch on our whereabouts.
The two-year investigation, launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor, concluded that Louisville police routinely used invalid search warrants and failed to knock and announce their presence.
We may have finally discovered a limit to judicial immunity.
They both share in their authoritarian desires to censor online speech and violate citizen privacy.
Part of a law that authorizes warrantless snooping is about to expire, opening up a opportunity to better protect our privacy rights.
Zion’s attempts to push out unwanted renters collides with Fourth Amendment protections.
An appeals court rejected a qualified immunity defense.
Photos and information you store on iCloud will be safer from hackers, spies, and the government.
In a brief and forceful opinion, a unanimous court explains why the trial court never had jurisdiction to consider Trump's filings in the first place.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
The Atlas of Surveillance lets us monitor the agencies that snoop on the public.
The Institute for Justice argues evidence from warrantless searches can’t be used for zoning enforcement.
The potential crimes that the FBI is investigating do not hinge on the current classification status of the records that the former president kept at Mar-a-Lago.
Even if Trump did declassify those records, the 11th Circuit says, he "has not identified any reason that he is entitled to them."
In any case, that issue does not seem relevant under the statutes that the FBI cited in its search warrant.
An unannounced SWAT team invaded a Texas man’s home in failed pursuit of drug evidence. They’ve blamed him for the violence they incited.
The former president's legal team notably did not endorse his claim that he automatically declassified everything he took with him.
"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax," says the former president, who insists that nothing at Mar-a-Lago was actually classified.
That failure adds to the evidence that Trump or his representatives obstructed the FBI's investigation.