The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by ...

The Constitution contains an important safeguard that has been ignored for far too long. Mendenhall v. City of Denver is ...

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets of California. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings.

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case dealing with geofence warrants, also called reverse warrants — and more aptly so ...

One year ago, black unmarked SUVs started pulling over landscaping trucks and white panel vans on main Island roads. Masked agents wearing padded camo-green vests detained 20 drivers and passengers ...

Whether you think spying is OK or not depends on your relationship to the information being collected. If you're on the gathering end, the invasion of someone else's privacy doesn't seem like a big ...

Recently, FBI Director Kash Patel told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Bureau purchases commercially available data that can track Americans’ movements and location histories. When Sen. Ron ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justices wrestled with how ...

Federal Judge M. Casey Rodgers ruled ex-ECSO deputy Augustus Fetterhoff broke the Fourth Amendment when he drove his car into David Holland's backyard without a warrant to search for drug evidence ...

Some conservatives might want to excuse it, but across the country, most egregiously in Minneapolis, federal law enforcement officers are blatantly violating the Fourth Amendment. That amendment ...