Law enforcement officers have a search warrant

 

1. Law enforcement officers have a search warrant to search a house for heroin and to search the person of the house owners’ 18-year-old daughter. When the officers arrive at the house to execute the warrant, the following persons are present:
the owners;
their eighteen-year-old daughter;
their fifteen-year-old son, who appears extremely nervous;
the daughter’s boyfriend, whom the officers recognize as a local gang member who is known to carry a knife; and an unidentified elderly couple.
To what extent may the officers search or detain each person present?
2. How do administrative searches and special needs searches differ from criminal searches?
3. Explain some of the current privacy concerns regarding searches of email, voice mail,text messages and social media.

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