Bowers, Steven v. County Of Taylor

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN STEVEN BOWERS, Plaintiff, v. OPINION and ORDER COUNTY OF TAYLOR, BRUCE DANIELS, and 20-cv-928-jdp MELISSA SEAVERS, Defendants. This case arises from a government agency’s search of an online account created by one of its employees. It poses close questions of Fourth Amendment law concerning online accounts and the rights of public employees. Plaintiff Steven Bowers was a sergeant for the Taylor County sheriff’s department. In 2017, the department started working with a television show called Cold Justice, a true-crime…