Sean Emery | April 4, 2018 | Policing
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities are legally entitled to collect DNA from suspected felons when they are booked into local lockups, overturning a lower court ruling that questioned the constitutionality of the practice. In its 4-3 ruling, the...
Howard Fischer | January 8, 2018 | Policing
Police cannot put a GPS device onto a vehicle to track its movements without first getting a warrant, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a precedent-setting decision, a majority of the justices said people in vehicles have a “reasonable expectation” of...
Stephen E. Henderson | September 22, 2017 | Data Privacy, Policing, Sentencing
As with most new things, the big data revolution in criminal justice has historic antecedents—indeed, a 1965 Presidential Commission called for some of the same data analysis that police departments and courts are today developing and implementing. But there is no...
Teresa Watanabe and Rosanna Xia | September 12, 2017 | Student Sexual Misconduct
California educational leaders vowed Thursday to press on with aggressive action against campus sexual assault despite any future rollback of the federal guidelines that have prompted universities to crack down on the problem. In a speech Thursday, U.S. Education...
Erin E. Buzuvis | August 8, 2017 | Student Sexual Misconduct
As an aspect of its prohibition on sex discrimination, Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 requires educational institutions that receive federal funding to engage in a “prompt and equitable” response to reports of sexual harassment, including sexual...
