Police Search of Child Porn Twitter Account Lawful, Judge Says

An investigation into a child pornography suspect’s Twitter account was valid, a Kansas federal judge ruled, after the suspect challenged the search of his account by Wichita police.

“Defendant lacked any objective expectation of privacy in the Twitter content,” Chief Judge Eric F. Melgren of the U.S. District Court for the U.S. District of Kansas wrote in his March 4 opinion.

Randy Sporn, a registered sex offender, argued that Detective Sergeant Stephanie Neal of the Wichita Police Department violated his Fourth Amendment rights when she searched a file that Twitter had sent into the National Center for Missing and Exploited ...