The Pennsylvania Superior Court rules that defendants must have a reasonable expectation of privacy to enjoy the evidentiary exclusionary rule provided in the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act (“WESCA”) and that authorization orders issued pursuant to WESCA serve as the functional equivalent of traditional search warrants. In two recent opinions on the Pennsylvania Wiretapping […]
PA Sup. Ct. Rules Wiretap Act Does Not Prohibit Fake Texts
The following story was originally published in the January 2012 edition of Upon Further Review, a publication of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Reprinted here with permission of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Wiretap Act Does Not Prohibit Fake Text Messages In the latest decision on the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control […]
PA Wiretap Act Amendments Give Police Teeth
The following story was originally published in the November 2012 edition of Upon Further Review, a publication of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Re-printed here with permission of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Amendments to Pennsylvania’s Wiretap Act Give Law Enforcement Teeth Law enforcement has always had to keep up with the use of technology in criminal […]
Full-Body Scanners at Airports. Necessary for Safety or an Unnecessary Invasion of Privacy?
I hope everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving weekend. With all the traveling over the holiday weekend, a hot topic around dinner tables has been about airport security and the use of body scanners. This past month, Philadelphia International Airport, following the footsteps of airports around the country and Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) guidelines, […]
ACLU Sues Philadelphia Over Unlawful Stop and Frisk
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today that the American Civil Liberties Union has sued the City of Philadelphia for illegal stop and frisk policy. Stop and frisk has been around for decades, but, in order to do it, the police need reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot to stop and articulable facts to believe that […]
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