Kristopher L. Weida v. State of Indiana

Goff, Justice.

Indiana's Special Probation Conditions for Adult Sex Offenders impose significant restrictions on probationers' conduct, including their internet access and use. As we increasingly live our lives in cyberspace, probation conditions limiting internet use must meet the same criteria as conditions that restrict other conduct. First, they must adequately inform probationers of what conduct will return them to jail; second, they must reasonably relate to the purposes of probation-rehabilitating the probationer and protecting the public. Here, Kristopher Weida challenges the propriety…