A recent ruling by U.S. Circuit Judge Barbara Milano Keenan sided with a Virginia teen, finding that the police had violated his right to privacy when gathering evidence in the case, Courthouse News Service reports. In her 29-page opinion, Judge Keenan wrote, “A reasonable police officer would have known that attempting to obtain a [sensitive] photograph of a minor ... in the presence of others, would unlawfully invade the child’s right of privacy.” Keenan added that the detective in charge “affronted the basic protections of the Fourth Amendment … which at its core protects personal privacy and dignity against unjustified intrusion by governmental actors.” In a dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Bruce King argued that the detective was acting on the advice of counsel and obeyed the court order.
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