This week Restore The Fourth joined a set of 23 civil society organizations from across the political spectrum urging FBI Director Kash Patel to meet with us to discuss surveillance reform and transparency. The groups urged Director Patel to: Read the letter below. **A previous version of this letter contained an inaccurate list of signatories. […]
Restore the Fourth recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Barnes v. Felix, urging the Court to go beyond the “moment of threat doctrine” or “totality of circumstances” test and look to common law for Fourth Amendment protections against excessive police force. The Facts On April 28, 2016, Janice Hughes Barnes’s son, […]