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May 26, 2007
Searching Authority
Employment column — By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Mino — A federal ruling approving a warrantless FBI search of an employee’s locked office and computer raises questions about where and when employers can search on their own.
By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Mino
In an interesting intersection of criminal and employment law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in U.S. v. Ziegler, 474 F.3d 1184 (9th Cir., 2007), that an employer can consent to a warrantless police search of an employee's locked, private office and seizure of the employee's password-protected computer within the offic...
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