SocialSecurity FourthAmendment Privacy
(1) Whether the investigation of misconduct by a substance abuse counselor justifies the search warrant seizure of all of the counselor's patient files and the confidential communications contained therein without the clients' permission or in camera review by a judge.
(2) Whether suspicion that a substance abuse counselor is misrepresenting the number of hours of counseling he is providing to one or more clients and is over-billing their insurance companies justifies the issuance of search warrants allowing law enforcement to seize all of his patient files, computers, laptops, and cell phones, in addition to items unlikely to contain evidence of criminal conduct such as passports, social security cards, phone books, personal diaries, telephone and utility bills, driver's licenses, photographs, and keys.
Whether a search warrant authorizing seizure of a substance abuse counselor's entire patient files and confidential communications without in camera review violates Fourth Amendment privacy protections