Updated Content Now Available in the Digital Version of Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina

Most readers of this blog are familiar with Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina. For those who are not, it is a treatise on search and seizure law. It covers stops, arrests, warrantless searches, search warrants, and much more. The most recent (sixth) edition was published in 2021 and was authored by long-time School of Government faculty member Robert L. Farb and research attorney Christopher Tyner. However, the law is never static, and the intervening years have seen major developments concerning issues such as digital searches, strip searches, the recording of interrogations, the automobile exception to the warrant requirement, and more. I’ve updated the treatise, and this post details how to access the new content. The old way was paper supplements. In years gone by, the School of Government would release periodic paper supplements to major treatises like Arrest, Search, and Investigation. The cost would be relatively modest – the last time we issued a supplement, I believe it cost $40. But they were cumbersome to use, requiring readers to check multiple volumes and flip back and forth between them. Readers who wanted to remain current might have to buy multiple supplements over the lifespan of an edition of a treatise. And of course, we would produce supplements only every year or two, meaning that even the supplements would not be completely current. Perhaps because of some of these limitations, we found that many people who bought the book chose not to purchase the supplements. The new way is digital [...]