The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in May, the Court delivered a 9–0 decision that left civil libertarians ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Thursday, against a resolution that would ...

The chief federal judge in Syracuse on Thursday said federal immigration agents who raided a Cato nutrition bar plant violated the Fourth Amendment when they subjected one woman to unreasonable search ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in Commonwealth v. Kurtz today, on whether there are Fourth Amendment rights in Google search terms. Among the seven Justices, three ...

Johnson County Board of Supervisors members speak with each other during a meeting at the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building in Iowa City on Aug. 20, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) ...

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors heard from members of the public and members of Escucha Mi Voz at a Wednesday meeting while discussing Fourth Amendment protections. Escucha Mi Voz is a faith ...

Roughly 40 Duke students and community members took to Abele Quad Friday afternoon to call on President Vincent Price and administrators to declare Duke a “Fourth Amendment Campus” to further protect ...

In the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case Maryland v. King, justices narrowly ruled that it was not a violation of a persons Fourth Amendment rights to collect a DNA sample upon their arrest. In keeping ...

This article explains how new surveillance and biometric tech, like drones and facial recognition, challenge privacy rights. Courts are increasingly scrutinizing when warrants are needed, balancing ...

In this March 13, 2020 file photo lobsters await shipping at a wholesale distributer in Arundel, Maine. Lobster prices are falling in New England as the industry deals with the effects of the ...

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets of California. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings.