The Fourth Amendment guarantees American citizens the right to security against illegal search and seizure. Without probable cause, issued in an official search warrant with specific evidential ...

If you read a lot of search warrants, you may have noticed something odd about the standard search warrant form. Search warrants command the officer to conduct the search. They don't just authorize ...

The U.S. Justice Department has asked an appeals court to let police fax search warrants to Internet companies during investigations. Last Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridgid Dowdal told a panel ...

In his Cyber Crime column, Peter A. Crusco discusses the issues raised by search warrants aimed at electronically stored information. My friend, Claudio, a scientist and biology professor, frequently ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - In the world of public records, the search warrant is arguably the most helpful document to inform the public of details about ongoing criminal investigations. And because ...

Search warrants of smartphones may not be so broad as to allow detectives to scour them for information beyond that related to the suspected criminal activity, Maryland’s top court ruled last week in ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Police Department systemically fails to properly plan, execute and track police raids, many of which involved officers raiding the wrong homes of innocent people, ...

Email providers have to turn over a user’s emails and other data to U.S. law enforcement when issued a search warrant, even if the data is stored overseas, a U.S. judge ruled Friday. Microsoft must ...

When North Carolina courts issue warrants to search homes or private property during criminal investigations, records of that process are supposed to be public. Exceptions should be rare. But a ...

When North Carolina courts issue warrants to search homes or private property during criminal investigations, records of that process are supposed to be public. Exceptions should be rare. But a ...