Aaron X. Sobel | September 26, 2023 | Policing
Below is the abstract for “End-Running Warrants: Purchasing Data under the Fourth Amendment and the State Action Problem,” available for download on SSRN. Rather than obtain warrants, law enforcement and intelligence agencies now purchase mass datasets of precise...
Tonja Jacobi and Riley Clafton | October 14, 2022 | Children and the Law
Below is the abstract for “The Law of Disposable Children: Searches in Schools,” available for download on SSRN. Schoolchildren are being strip-searched based on little or no reasonable suspicion, and schoolchildren are being targeted for searches based on their race,...
Michael Gentithes | July 29, 2019 | Policing
ABSTRACTYoung minority men in high-crime neighborhoods are surrounded by poverty and crime, yet distrustful of the police that frequently stop, frisk, and arrest them and their friends. Every encounter with the police carries the potential for a new arrest or...
Pauline Toboulidis | November 30, 2017 | Data Privacy, Policing
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. United States, where the question presented is whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless seizure and search of a user’s cellphone location and movement information. In Carpenter,...
