Post by Electronic Privacy Information Center

On Monday, EPIC Executive Director and President Alan Butler spoke to the American Bar Association's Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice about the privacy implications of using administrative warrants in immigration enforcement. Butler and Washington University Law Professor Sheldon Evans discussed the foundations of U.S. privacy protections, law enforcement’s history of abusing administrative warrants and other processes that don’t require judicial oversight, and what U.S. residents should know when it comes to such warrants. Watch the conversation here: