US v. Heckenkamp
By Jennifer Granick on April 22, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy in their dorm room computers, but that University officials can search those computers without a warrant for school security purposes under the “special needs” exception. Read more about US v. Heckenkamp