The Sixth Circuit recently found that metadata used to route communications on wireless phones are business records, created and maintained by wireless carriers. As such, the FBI’s possession of these materials, without a warrant, was not a search under the Fourth Amendment.

A Malian national received 25 years in U.S. prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to kill an American diplomat in Niger.

As the members of the 263rd Session of the FBI National Academy exited the buses that brought them to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, they made their way to the walls inscribed with the names of more than 20,000 fallen officers.

The U.S. Border Patrol recently pledged to add up to 1,600 women to their workforce.

Tune in this week to preview Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) events with members of the Public Employees Roundtable.

Law enforcement entry into a home, over the homeowner’s objection, was justified because officers reasonably believed a person inside was potentially unable to communicate and held against her will or otherwise in danger, the Eighth Circuit held.

The FBI teamed up with NYPD to arrest more than 30 gang members involved in major drug operations in East Harlem’s public housing complexes.

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, thirteen masterpieces were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, worth approximately $500 million.

The Seventh Circuit recently held that the use of a “super-sensitive instrument” outside an apartment door violates a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. Justifying its holding, the court discussed that people of different ethnicities and race as well as of lower income are more likely to reside in apartment complexes and need to be afforded protection.

A trifecta of meth busts at the Mexico border resulted in the confiscation of nearly $5.6 million worth of methamphetamine last week.

Since 2002, Department of Homeland Security agents operated a fake university in New Jersey to catch individuals conspiring to commit visa fraud.

An investigatory stop may still be lawful even if the officer falsely cites a ground that is not supported by reasonable suspicion as the basis for the stop, the Ninth Circuit recently held.

Help the National Park Service celebrate its 100th birthday in 2016! Although its birthday is officially August 25, centennial events run all year long.

Only one ground of an affidavit in support of a search warrant needs to be supported by probable cause for a district court to deny a Franks hearing request, the Eighth Circuit recently held.

The U.S. Justice Department announced an $8 million settlement with two defense contractors over allegations of selling defective infrared countermeasure flares to the U.S. Army thereby violating the False Claims Act.

Recently, Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) introduced H.R. 4751 - Law Enforcement for Local Lands Act of 2016.

The optional LEOSA Coverage offered by FEDS was developed with the help of LEOSA expert attorneys who defended active officer LEOSA situations, to fill the LEOSA civil exposure gaps similar to the on-duty civil liability gaps of federal LEOs.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently found a warrantless search constitutional, noting it would be a “miscarriage of justice” to allow the defendants to go scot-free. In doing so, the court of appeals deemed the “consent once removed” doctrine “expendable.”

From Feb. 1 to March 11, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested more than 8,000 gang members, sex offenders, and other violent criminals in what they named Operation Violence Reduction12.

The Performance Institute will host its 2016 Government Performance Summit in Washington, DC on May 16-18, 2016.