Leventhal v. Knapek

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• deciding that defendant’s private office was a factor in favor of finding reasonable expectation of privacy in office computer’s contents
• noting that employee had been given no notice that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of his office computer
• search of plaintiff’s computer performed by New York Department of Transportation investigators during the course of an investigation of allegations made against plaintiff
• “[T]he Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches conducted by the Government, even when the Government acts as an employer.” (quoting Nat’l Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, 489 U.S. 656, 665 (1989)
• public employee had reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of his office computer because his employer neither “had a general practice of routinely conducting searches of office computers” nor 77 33 Op. O.L.C. 63 (2009
• New York State Department of Transportation’s search of employee’s computer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).