[bb88]

US federal law says a search warrant can't be issued against journalists to anything that remotely looks like reporting. Instead police must subpoena a journalist instead to show up with the materials requested. The journalist can then get a lawyer and quash the subpoena in court.

https://www.mcguirewoods.com/news-resources/publications/med...

[s1artibartfast]

There's a huge carve out for if a journalist is being investigated for criminal activity themselves

[tinus_hn]

And then when the police violate the law, what happens? They are forced to not do it again? At worst they get to pay a fine with someone else’s money.