Street Law Project
For this project, we asked ourselves this question:
"How do we balance the need for personal privacy with the need to keep a safe, orderly, and just society?" To do this, we studied the Fourth Amendment and case precedent to find answers to these questions: 1. What situations can police legally detain me, with or without a warrant? 2. What is the difference between a hunch, reasonable suspicion, and probable cause? 3. How do we act during a police encounter? 4. What are the restrictions on police search and seizure? For our final piece, we were asked to create a piece that could share something we learned with the student body as a whole. For my exhibition, I chose to focus on digital privacy laws. We learned that our search and seizure rights change regarding digital data, so I looked further into it. It drew my attention because I was in a school where people's cell phones were taken and wouldn't be returned until the end of the day. I had a phone at the time that couldn't be secured with a password, so I just took the battery out and kept it when I handed over my cell phone. Also, the teachers left the grading system and school data ports often open and unattended, and I was concerned. I wanted to know how our school was protecting our data, and I found three Student Data Protection bills being proposed to congress. |