Kate Levine and Stephen Rushin | May 29, 2018 | Policing
This piece will appear in a forthcoming issue of the University of Illinois Law Review. Over the past several years there has been increased focus on the way police are treated by the criminal justice system and their own internal disciplinary mechanisms. Scholars and...
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...
Taylor Carroll | March 27, 2018 | Data Privacy, Policing
USA Today addresses the privacy concerns raised after Congress passed the CLOUD Act, a bill that would allow police in other countries to have access to emails and other electronic communications more easily from their own citizens as well as Americans. In the past,...
Orin S. Kerr | March 23, 2018 | Policing
ABSTRACTThis Article considers whether government agents can conduct searches or seizures to enforce a different government’s law. For example, can federal officers make stops based on state traffic violations? Can state police search for evidence of federal...
Cathy Shufro | February 9, 2018 | Policing
Professor Tracey Meares has sandwiched this trip to Chicago between two teaching days at the Yale Law School, timing it for when her kids are out of the house. On this cool Thursday morning in May 2017, she’s back in her favorite city, where she lived for almost 20...
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...
