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    From Accountability to Intrusion: Police Body-Worn Cameras and Constitutional Tensions in Florida Policing

    March 17, 2026By Jennifer Fanea

    What happens when a police officer activates his body-worn camera while responding to a disturbance at a private residence and weeks later, without the homeowner’s knowledge or consent, the owner learns that the footage of his living room, arrest, and emotional reactions was reviewed by officers and used to shape testimony? This commonplace inquiry illustrates […]

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    “Plain Smell” v. “Smell-Plus” Doctrine: Florida’s Indecisiveness in Establishing Probable Cause for Warrantless Searches

    October 16, 2025By Jennifer Fanea

    The Fourth Amendment grants people the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”[i]  It also states that “no [w]arrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by [o]ath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”[ii] […]

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