A new law in Indiana, beginning in July, will require all registered sex offenders to submit to police their e-mail addresses, screen names and log-in names to social networking Web sites. They will also be required to install software on their computer that will allow police to monitor what they are doing on their computer at any given time.
“If we can look into their private Internet and look into what they're doing, and they're contacting somebody they shouldn't be, that's going to help stop them,” Scott County Sheriff John Lizenby told local newspapers.
Despite this law being put into place to protect the victims, one registered sex offender, Steve Morris, says that it violates his right of the Fourth Amendment. As a result, Morris is suing every sheriff and prosecutor in the state of Indiana.
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures of property. According to the Supreme Court, law enforcement cannot conduct a search without probable cause and a search warrant.
What about the victims' rights?
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