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Riley v. California
Riley v. California
What is it?
Riley v. California, (2014) is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that procedures searching cell phones and obtaining relevant records is unconstitutional.
That rule was followed by the Supreme Courts of Georgia, Massachusetts, and California. However other courts in the First Circuit and the Supreme Courts of Florida and Ohio disagreed.
Background
This decision was taken after the incident of the police which searched the digital content of a phone in order to resolve a case and arrest the suspect.
Impact and effect on citizens
Cases implication
On school
These cases created what is often referred to as the “assumption-of-risk” doctrine. Those cases are the U.S. v. Miller and the other one, Smith v. Maryland. Those are cases of people who have shared some information to the bank or any company and this information has been search by the police. However some people believe that it is the decision of the people how take the risk.
This decision has had an important impact in school districts. Allowing the police to look such records on a routine basis is quite different from allowing them to search a personal item or two in the occasional case.
School administrators are not allowed, if there is no individual suspicion. There can only be a research if is necessary for educational reasons.
In conclusion, there has been many implications, the cases we have seen before but also more cases that have had an important impact.
I believe that not only those cases have had an impact. Also any citizen that has a cellphone and shares his or her information which should have the privacy requierd