A new bill could end the protections of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act for members of education institutions, including students.
California legislation aims to allow schools to search personal electronic devices
Tag: Fourth Amendment
Journalist arrested for filming in courthouse has charges dismissed
Daryl Khan was arrested for filming in a New York City courthouse in June, and a judge recently dismissed the charges against the journalist.
Searching professor's house for guns based on Facebook joke was unreasonable, appeals court rules
Evidence seized in an unlawful newsroom search led police to discover pot in a professor's home. But the illegally obtained evidence can't be used at the professor's drug trial.
Supreme Court cellphone-search ruling sends a cautionary message to schools
In a 9-0 ruling that will reverberate in the nation's schoolhouses, the Supreme Court decided Wednesday that police can't automatically search the contents of a motorist's cellphone just because they arrest him.
Federal appeals court dials up an important win for students’ cellphone privacy
A high school student is caught sending a text message during class, in violation of school rules. The teacher confiscates his phone.
School cellphone searches test boundaries of students’ Fourth Amendment rights
It's happening at schools across the country: A student is caught misusing a cellphone on campus, and administrators seize the phone and look at everything inside of it.It happened last week at an upstate New York high school, where a 14-year-old boy and his girlfriend are now under criminal investigation after a school principal discovered "inappropriate" photos of the girl while searching the boy's cellphone.Is this legal?