Conference Materials
Computer Searches and Seizures, with Emphasis on Child Pornography Cases (October 7-8, 2013)
01 - Welcome & Introduction to Fourth Amendment Framework
01(a) Clancy, Fourth Amendment. Chapter 1
02 - Digital Evidence and Computer Forensics
03 - Fourth Amendment Applicability: Expecations of Privacy
04 - Fourth Amendment Satisfaction: Competing Views of the Nature of Digital Evidence Searches
05 - Warrantless Searches and Seizures: Consent; Search Incident to Arrest; Probable Cause-Based Vehicle Searches
05(a) Clancy, Cyber Crime. Chapter 7
05(b) Clancy, Cyber Crime, Chapter 8
06 - Technology Framework -- Tracking Technologies; Beepers, Cell Phones; GPS
07 - Legal Framework -- Tracking Technologies
08 - The Internet and Network Technologies
08(a) Uses of Technology
09 - Typical Investigations Involving Digital Evidence & Statutory Overview Regulating Outside the Box Investigations
10 - Fourth Amendment Framework Outside the Box
11 - Common Fourth Amendment Issues in Child Pornography Cases
Additional source materials
A. 50 State Stutory Surveys (Thompson Reuters/West October 2012)
B. Clancy, The Fourth Amendment Aspects of Computer Searches and Seizures: APerspective and a Primer, 75 Miss. L.J. 193 (2005)
C. Child Pornography Offenses Are a Valid Diagnostic Indicator of Pedophilia (Ray Blanchard, July 2005)
D. The ‘Butner Study’ Redux: A Report of the Incidence of Hands-On Child Victimization by Child Pornography Offenders (Michael L. Bourke and Andrews E. Hernandez, December 2008)
E. What You Must Know to Help Combat Youth Bullying, Meanness, and Cruelty (danah boyd and John Palfrey, February 2012)
F. Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis For Professionals Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Children (Kenneth V. Lanning, Former Supervisory Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Fifth Edition 2010) LINK ONLY:
http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC70.pdf
G. National Plan to Prevent Child Abuse (Developed by the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation)
H. 50 State Statutory Surveys (Thompson Reuters/West, September 2010)
I. 2009-2012 Sexting Legislation (National Conference of State Legislatures, August 2012)
J. Obscenity and Child Pornography as Categories of Unprotected Speech (Thomas K. Clancy, 2011)
K. Viewing Child Pornography (National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse/National District Attorneys Association, June 2012)