Administrative Law

"Laptop searches go too far: Customs agents should not be allowed to arbitrarily scroll through citizens' laptop computers."
"Laptop searches go too far: Customs agents should not be allowed to arbitrarily scroll through citizens' laptop computers." This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

Ninth Circuit Upholds Border Laptop Searches without Individualized Suspicion
From Law.com: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that border control agents who found child porn on a traveler's laptop didn't violate the man's right to be free from unreasonable searches...

Crossing the border Consider the possibility of laptop searches
As March Break is almost in full swing, it's timely to read Compterworld's recent 5 things you need to know about laptop searches at U.S. borders. State sovereignty usually means that a country has total control over who and what gets in and traditional searches are being extended to laptop searches...

Searching computers w/o probable cause
9th Circuit OKs Border Guards' Search of Traveler's LaptopThe RecorderThe 9th Circuit ruled Monday that border control agents who found child porn on a traveler's laptop didn't violate the man's right to be free from unreasonable searches...

Would you please boot up your laptop
The Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing Wednesday morning, "Laptop Searches and Other Violations of Privacy Faced by Americans Returning from Overseas Travel...

Hearing: Laptop Searches and Other Violations of Privacy Faced by Americans Returning from Overseas Travel
Laptop Searches and Other Violations of Privacy Faced by Americans Returning from Overseas Travel, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the...

Canadian Government
seeks new law enabling them to search your laptop

Indianapolis
alleging the city's police are overly aggressive against the homeless in violation of the protection of free speech and unreasonable searches guaranteed in the US Constitution.