A 12-year-old girl in Minnesota is suing the local school district after a Facebook post got her suspended. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, the girl is suing the school district because the Minnewaska Area Middle School allegedly searched her Facebook status updates and email accounts. The girl, identified in the lawsuit filed [...]

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Today represents a rare “win” for your Fourth Amendment rights, as the Supreme Court has just ruled that police attachment of a GPS device to monitor a suspect’s vehicle was a search protected by constitutional privacy rights. The court’s ruling was a blow to the Obama administration, which had previously defended the use of GPS [...]

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UPDATE: The Supreme Court has basically overturned this ruling The all-out assault on your civil rights continues.  There goes the Fourth Amendment too. A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the FBI didn’t need to obtain a search warrant to covertly attach a GPS device to a suspect’s vehicle in order to track his [...]

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During these chaotic times here in our great nation, we thought we’d take a moment and reflect on the freedoms that we all enjoy thanks to those brave men and women who gave their lives for our country. This Thanksgiving, let us all be thankful that we have freedom of speech and the liberty that [...]

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Here’s a shocking story. An Ohio mom filed a police report claiming her 6-year-old daughter was illegally strip-searched at school. The mother, who hasn’t been identified, said the incident happened last week at Par Excellence Academy in Newark, Ohio. She says the whole thing began because her daughter had trouble gaining weight. She believes the [...]

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Here’s something that will get your Spidey-senses tingling.  The Michigan State Police have a new, high-tech forensics device that officers are using to download information from the cell phones of motorists that have been pulled over for traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has gotten involved, demanding that state officials stop [...]

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