State v. Stuart Lizotte, Jr.

¶ 1. This case requires us to consider whether defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his online service provider, AOL, searched his transmissions, detected suspected child pornography, and sent information to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which opened the email and attachment and provided it to law enforcement. We conclude that AOL was not acting as an agent of law enforcement when it searched defendant's transmissions, and that NCMEC and law enforcement did not expand AOL's private search by viewing the file already identified by AOL as…