California governor vetoes the bill banning warrentless cell phone searches

[thewayne]

"In probably the most important decision Gov. Brown of California will make this year, he has vetoed the bill that would require officers to get a search warrant before searching cellular phones of arrested citizens. This further enables the police to carry out warrantless searches of private property extending into contacts, email, photos, banking activity, GPS, and other functions that are controlled by modern phones. 'He cites a recent California Supreme Court decision upholding the warrantless searches of people incident to an arrest. In his brief message (PDF), he also doesn’t say whether it’s a good idea or not. Instead, he says the state Supreme Court’s decision is good enough, a decision the U.S. Supreme Court let stand last week.'"

So I guess we have to wait a few years for someone to sue and get it elevated to the SCOTUS.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/10/2358221/california-governor-vetoes-ban-on-warrantless-phone-searches

Comments

[silveradept]

Ugh. Yet another police powers extension allowing them to assume you're guilty if they think you are. And then to find whatever evidence they wanted to declare that.