<story><title>Texas Appeals Court Rules Phone Search After Arrest Violates 4th Amendment [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/pdfOpinion.asp?OpinionID=25167</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Footnote 30, on Page 13, is very very important to understanding the limitations of this ruling; the ruling concerns &lt;i&gt;inventory searches&lt;/i&gt; and not the more common &lt;i&gt;searches incident to arrest&lt;/i&gt;. If you are arrested, in most locales in the US, it is very likely that evidence taken from your phone &lt;i&gt;at the time of your arrest&lt;/i&gt; will stand up in court. Keep your phones secure.</text></comment>
<story><title>Texas Appeals Court Rules Phone Search After Arrest Violates 4th Amendment [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/pdfOpinion.asp?OpinionID=25167</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>In Canada, if the phone has a password police need a search warrant to go through it.&lt;p&gt;Whats more alarming is he was a high school student who got arrested for a disturbance on a bus:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One morning, Anthony Granville was arrested for the Class C offense of causing adisturbance on the school bus. His cell phone was taken from him during the bookingprocedure and placed in the jail property room.</text></comment>