Tag: Search and Seizure: Page 12

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Public School Searches

Public school officials are entitled to search the student if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting the student of violating the law or any school rule. But once law enforcement officers become involved, higher justification standards will apply.

October 18, 2009

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Vehicle Searches: Incident to Arrest

After Apr. 19, officers and agencies could incur liability for vehicle searches incident to arrest that do not fall within the Gant guidelines.

May 31, 2009

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Updating Weapons Frisks

Although it's common to see the term "stop and frisk," it's possible that there might be justification for a stop, but not for a frisk.

March 31, 2009

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Official Misinformation

What the exclusionary rule has actually meant in practice is that thousands (maybe millions) of criminals have been able to stop the prosecution from using critical evidence of their guilt to hold them accountable for their crimes.

February 28, 2009

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Supreme Court Sides with Police Officers in Search Case

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers in Utah who searched a suspect's home without a warrant cannot be sued for violating his constitutional rights.

January 21, 2009

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Signed Forms Now Required for Arizona DPS to Search Vehicles

The most significant changes require officers to receive a signed form before a driver consents to a search and for officers to document, what factors, exactly, prompted the search for those cars and trucks where a search proves fruitless.

December 30, 2008

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LAPD and ACLU Reach Settlement on Skid Row Searches

The agreement comes 18 months after a federal judge found that the LAPD was unconstitutionally searching homeless people in the Skid Row area as part of Chief William J. Bratton's crackdown on downtown crime.

December 21, 2008

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The Young and the Arrestless

Notwithstanding the explosion of youth criminality, the court has largely continued to treat juvenile offenders in a more lenient and paternalistic fashion than adults.

November 30, 2008

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AD11-V Handheld Metal Detector

Adams Electronics

Adams Electronics’ model AD11-V has the simultaneous audio/visual alarm facility standard on all the company’s handheld metal detectors. But it also has the ability, via a two-position rocker switch, to switch the detector to either standard "audio/visual" setting or "vibration only” mode. This feature gives the AD11-V the ability to alert the operator of a potential weapon silently.

November 30, 2008

Special Units

Seeker Plus Metal Detector

MSE Group

The Seeker Plus from MSE Group detects ferrous and non-ferrous metals with 360-degree continuous detection and pin-point detection. It has adjustable sensitivity, a 10-inch probe, and durable, tough ABS construction.

November 30, 2008

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Metal-TEC Metal Detector

Torfino Enterprises

The Torfino Metal-TEC 1400 is a silent vibrating weapons detector small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Silent vibration will not alarm the subject being searched (or others around them) that a weapon has been detected. It alerts the officer to weapons, razor blades, handcuff keys, and even small pieces of metal foil that may contain drugs from inches away.

November 30, 2008

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The State of American Law Enforcement - Rules of Engagement

In smaller agencies, policy manuals—if they existed—were just a few policy statements. Now there are multiple bound volumes that no officer can be expected to memorize, let alone understand. — Tom Aveni, Police Policy Studies Council

September 30, 2008