Category: Search and Seizure

Court Rules Against Justice Dept. Search of Reporter’s Computers

The New York Times – Business:
The judge said the court itself would search the devices, which were seized from a Washington Post reporter’s home last month.
$235,000 Settlement Is Reached in Police Raid of Marion County Record

A former reporter of The Marion County Record has settled a lawsuit following a raid on the weekly newspaper last year that garnered widespread attention.
German Authorities Seize $2 Billion Worth of Bitcoin

The police described the transfer of funds as the “most extensive seizure of Bitcoins by law enforcement in the Federal Republic of Germany.”
Police Chief Behind Marion County Record Raid is Suspended

Gideon Cody, who orchestrated a widely criticized raid on The Marion County Record, was suspended indefinitely, a city official said on Saturday.
Liberty Safe Backlash: How a Gun Safe Maker Angered Gun Owners

Liberty Safe faced intense criticism this week after it acknowledged that it had voluntarily given the F.B.I. the access code to a safe in response to a search warrant for a property.
Authorities to Return Items Seized in Kansas Newspaper Raid

The raid of the newspaper, The Marion County Record, has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
Kansas Paper Warns Police Not to Review Information on Seized Devices

Newspaper raids are rare in the United States, and the one that happened at The Marion County Record last week has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
Police Raid Kansas Newspaper Office

The search of the Marion County Record led to the seizure of computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors.
F.B.I. Searched the Home of Kraken’s Jesse Powell

Federal agents were investigating Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, over claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group.
Mountain of FTX Evidence: Emails, Chat Logs, Code and a Notebook

Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.
Detective Sued Over SWAT Raid Based on Wrong Location on the Find My App

The New York Times – Business:
A detective relied on flawed information provided by the Find My app for a warrant that led the police to raid the home of a 77-year-old Denver woman, a lawsuit says.
Two Black Comedians Sue Police Over Search at Atlanta Airport

The New York Times – Travel:
Eric André and Clayton English said they were two of hundreds of Black travelers who have been stopped and questioned by officers just as they were about to board flights.