Serna v. Goodno

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Luis A. Serna is an involuntarily civilly committed “sexually dangerous person” currently detained as part of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (the “Program”) 1 at a treatment facility in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Staff at Moose Lake discovered a cell-phone case in a common area, considered cell phones to be security and treatment risks, and began to search for a suspected contraband phone. They first searched the common area and then viewed a surveillance videotape, but they found no phone and were unable to determine who had dropped the case. Administrators next…