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Indiana Law Requiring Former Prisoners to Consent to Search and Monitoring of Their Computers Held Unconstitutional
Loaded on April 15, 2009
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2009, page 38
On June 24, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton struck down Section 8(b) of Indiana Public Law 119, which required sex offenders and violent offenders who had completed their sentences and were no longer on parole, probation or any other form of correctional supervision to “consent” to the search ...
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Searches,
Parole/Probation Searches,
Computers,
Injunctions,
Parole Conditions.
Location:
Indiana.
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