The white paper explains and analyzes the warrant applications to show how law enforcement agencies use digital evidence to investigate suspected criminal activity at mass events. 3/3.

The paper examines how federal law enforcement agencies used digital evidence to investigate suspected criminal activity during protests in Minneapolis-Saint Paul following George Floyd’s murder. 2/3.

Congrats to former @SamuelsonClinic students Gary Lee and Margerite Blase on publication of their student white paper 1/3.

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Thanks to @FreeLawProject for their persistence on transparency in the federal judicial system and allowing us to be a part of that effort.

ICYMI: Check out the Samuelson Clinic's accomplishments in 2023.

And, in part, the @ACLU & @EFF brief explains that advocacy orgs have standing to see unsealing judicial records because it is necessary to vindicate the public's role of overseeing the judicial and executive branches.

Among other things, the media orgs' brief argues that the "practical implications of the ruling below are to ignore the Reporters Committee’s role in aiding newsgathering efforts and thus to hinder the media’s reporting in the public interest."

Yesterday, two amicus briefs in support of @rcfp were accepted in the 8th Circuit appeal. One from a coalition of media organizations and the other from @aclu and @EFF.

And, as the brief says, “when the correct legal standard is applied, there can be no reasonable dispute that the Reporters Committee has standing to seek access to the judicial records” at issue in the case.

As @katie_rcfp has said, it’s “crucial that the Reporters Committee and organizations like it be able to vindicate the rights of the press and public to access judicial records by challenging denials of those rights in court.”.

In October, the district court judge denied the application, saying that the Reporters Committee lacked standing to seek the records at issue in the case. And last week, we filed the opening brief in the appeal of that decision:

Last April, @jennifersun & @meganmcgraham argued in the District of Minnesota that the court should unseal SCA and PRA records, change their default sealing practices, and begin docketing and unsealing denied applications.

Last week, we filed our opening brief in an 8th Circuit appeal on behalf of @RCFP in our longstanding advocacy to unseal Stored Communications Act and Pen Register Act materials in Minnesota.

We have had such a busy year! You can learn more about the awesome work our students have accomplished in our annual newsletter.

RT @BerkeleyLaw: “This is normal business for a cellphone search,” @SamuelsonClinic supervising attorney @meganmcgraham tells @NorthBayNews….

The @BerkeleyLaw Clinical Program is hiring an office administrator to support all six of our in-house clinics. Apply to come work with us!

RT @NextCentCit: +1. In March 2022, Berkeley Law's @SamuelsonClinic and @NextCentCit highlighted the impact of digital inequities on remote….

Welcome to all of the @BerkeleyLaw students who are back on campus for Clinic Orientation today! We are so excited to see you all and to work with you this semester!