REMINDER: If you are not on probation or any form of supervision, don’t show your phone.
We are receiving reports that officers conducting compliance checks are asking to see registrants phones. If you are not on probation, parole, supervised release, community control or any form of supervision, you are not required to show anyone your phone without a warrant. If you are not on supervision and are asked for your phone, ASK FOR A WARRANT!
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Be aware the the 4th Amendment does not protect you when coming into the USA (e.g. returning from holiday on a cruise or other international trip). Most of us don’t travel internationally but we still need to be vigilant.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-search-electronic-devices#:~:text=CBP%20conducts%20border%20searches%20of,devices%20crossing%20our%20nation's%20borders.
If you are on probation, I thought only those overseeing your probation can ask to see your phone. What does the local LE officer for compliance check have to do with the right to look thru a phone?
Those on probation might consider reviewing their release conditions paperwork to clarify who may conduct a search and under what circumstance(s).
Absolutely not! I had a cop one time that asked to look in my shed lol. Needless to say, he was denied.
What about locked or unlocked gates to access the property? Does LE have the right to enter without a warrant?
First, this is not legal advice.
Second, unless there is a specific statute that forces those on the registry to allow warrantless access to private property, your 4th amendment civil rights would apply. I have read the FL statutes and have not found or heard of any statute with attempts to override this right. Of course, with how the registry is, you’re at their mercy and if they want to find something or even make up something to put torture cuffs on you and throw you in a cage, they will. This doesn’t only apply to folks on the registry, it’s just that we are exceptionally easy targets.
The good news is, if your rights are violated, you can sue. The bad news is that it takes only an arrest to deny you removal from the registry when that time comes, and there is no exclusion for invalid arrests afaik.
Again, I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice.
May I dare ask what counties are violating civil rights this time?
Nice info. I have always wondered about that but never remembered to ask