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Fourth Amendment

Florida Law Review

2020

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Gps And Cell Phone Tracking Of Employees, Marc Chase Mcaliister Nov 2020

Gps And Cell Phone Tracking Of Employees, Marc Chase Mcaliister

Florida Law Review

This Article examines employee location tracking through smart phone apps and GPS devices attached to or embedded within an employee’s personal or company vehicle. For each form of tracking, this Article provides separate frameworks for employers to follow when conducting individual employee misconduct investigations and when tracking an entire group of employees for non-investigatory purposes. Beginning with GPS tracking for individual misconduct investigations, this Article contends that such tracking should be used only as a means to corroborate evidence that an employee has committed a terminable offense, that an employer may resort to this technique only after alternative investigative methods …


The Fourth Amendment, Dark Web Drug Dealers, And The Opioid Crisis, Katharine Stewart Nov 2020

The Fourth Amendment, Dark Web Drug Dealers, And The Opioid Crisis, Katharine Stewart

Florida Law Review

This Note addresses whether people who use criminal aliases to send drugs through the mail should retain their Fourth Amendment rights in those packages. While several circuit courts have identified this as an issue, none have resolved it. One district court has been able to conclude, unquestioned by the higher courts, that such people do not retain their Fourth Amendment rights in the packages. This Note disagrees: People who send drugs through the mail using criminal aliases have Fourth Amendment rights in those packages. Because of the growing opioid crisis in the United States, a crisis fueled in part by …