Homepage:  ADJ 243 Homeland Security and the Law

Home Page // Assignments Page // Notes 1 // Notes 2 // Notes 3 // Notes 4 // Exam Page // Books // Paper // Articles

Syllabus | Blog

The night of 9/11 (Bush)

Bush announces Homeland Security Act of 2002

Sept. 6       Chapter 1: pp 1-7 and 15-26

Sept. 13     Chapter 2: pp 29-71 (entire chapter, but you do not have to do the discussion questions or practical exercises). 

Sept. 20     Chapter 3: pp 73-92 (we are not covering budgeting so you need not read the chapter pages on yearly budgets). 

Exam One

The big tech companies (the Europeans have lumped them together as GAFA: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) are shredding the principles that protect individuality.

Exam Two

I'm a Journalist and I Was Stopped From Covering Standing Rock--Journalist was refused entrance from Border agents because he had traveled the world as a journalist and had been to many terrorist countries.

TABBAA v. CHERTOFF--A person was detained for six hours because he had visited a Islamic convention in Toronto Canada. It was determined that it was not against the law for the Border Protection officers to do.

• • Border search of electronic devices

    Article on CBP border search of journalist's electronic devices

    Posted on: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 9:20:44 PM EST

    Please read the following article from Time online. It highlights the tension between homeland security and civil/privacy rights:

    http://time.com/4588272/journalist-standing-rock-border/

  • Detention of persons at the U.S. border

    Please read the below case:

    http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1161767.html
  • Supreme Court case on cell phone location data

    Another technology privacy issue is before the Supreme Court. This

  •  NYT article explains the case dealing with police gathering cell phone location data:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/opinion/police-cellphones-privacy

  • -supreme-court.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&modu

  • le=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

  • Police use of License Plate Readers (LPRs)

    Article on police use of license plate readers:

    http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/18/59627/license-plate-readers-capture-loads-of-data-how-lo/

  • Article on Tabbaa case (border detention)

    Previously, I provided a link to this Second Circuit Court of Appeals case involving CBP’s detention of certain persons at the U.S. - Canadian land border.  Below is a link to a recent article on the case:

    http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/09/border-authorities-broad-authority-inside-court-cases/

   

Date started:

Date completed:

Notes About Class: The class turned from a 16-week class to a 14-week class because there was a need to wait to get the minimum students.

Style Guide

---------------------------------

Mark

Special Font

PW: Here

red

pacifico red

pacifico gray

underling

Red Box

White Box

Blue Background

Red Background

White Background

Black Background