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No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search | Government agents have "qualified immunity" for 2019 actions.
Government agents have “qualified immunity” for 2019 actions.
How Palmer even learned about the arrest is unclear, but Olson had told the Idaho police she was dating a sheriff's deputy in Oregon; somehow, word spread back to the department in Grant County.) More specifically, this circumstance involved a law enforcement agency accessing highly sensitive cell phone data from another jurisdiction in the absence of a warrant, consent, or even any investigation or suspicion of criminal activity on the part of a suspect." Whatever had actually happened with Olson's data, the Oregon authorities had no right to look through it simply because the police chief was "curious" about it or because he wanted to go on a warrantless fishing expedition to see if one of his deputies was involved in anything nefarious.
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