Ccjs 321 Project #2 - Investigative Collection Of Evidence

Investigative Collection of EvidenceNameCourseTutor’s NameDatePart I: Overview/Case SummarySummary of the incident and permissions/authorities needed for a search of Mr. Jackson’s former Company work area.The Human Resources Director for Allied Technology Systems has just been notified that Mr. Keith Jackson a former engineer in the new products department has just been terminated for cause. Due to Mr. Jackson’s insinuations during the exit, interview the Human Resources Director fears that Mr Jackson may be taking the company’s intellectual property to a competitor.The following permissions/authorities are applicable in searching Mr Jackson’s former work area.As long as the employer is not acting as an agent of the government, he/she retains the right to a warrantless search in an employee’s workplace. Private employers therefore do not violate the Fourth Amendment right to privacy in private searches. This authority has been established by the courts in Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn., 489 U.S. 602, 109 S. Ct. 1402, 103 L. Ed. 2d 639 (1989) (French, 1990). However, employees are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy from law enforcement searches. Law enforcement officers can defeat the reasonable expectation