OLYMPIA — Reasonable suspicion vs. probable cause: Both can be officer judgment calls, but one often requires more documentation. Engrossed Senate Bill 5352, being considered by state lawmakers as ...

Where the police lacked reasonable suspicion to extend a traffic stop, the defendant’s motion to suppress a firearm should ...

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"Any blessing of intonations of 'high-crime area' unsupported by empirical evidence and unconnected to the specific circumstances is a blot on our jurisprudence in this area of Fourth Amendment ...

Next Monday, the Supreme Court will hold argument in an interesting Fourth Amendment case, Kansas v. Glover. Glover raises a simple question: When an officer spots a car driving on a public road, and ...

Agents can conduct an extensive warrantless search of an individuals’ electronic devices at the U.S. border only if they have “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity, a federal appeals court ruled ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court let stand a March 2013 ruling that established—at least in the Ninth Circuit in the western United States—that extended and sophisticated forensic analysis of a digital ...

Topline: A Boston federal court ruled Tuesday that U.S. federal agents can’t conduct “suspicionless” searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at the border and other ports of entry ...

Former Stocks & Securities Limited director Hugh Croskery, his daughter Sarah Meany, and ex-CEO Zachary Harding are being questioned by the autho ...