The constitutional issue is not yet settled. It is being scrutinized and questioned. We begin here a collection of notes relating to that question. The collection will grow as new material comes in and we get time to add links to material already on the site.

• Bernie Huebner letter to the Maine Civil Liberties Union
• Peter Cox has some comments about the issue in his Maine Times pieces.
• A Maine Times editorial
• Professor Steven Barkan, University of Maine Criminologist, writes for the Bangor Daily News.
• From Peter Cox: This Appeals Court decision still could be overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court but it lays out the current case law and raises the possibility that this would be considered a broad dragnet like the drug searches and would have been turned down by this court.
  There are some other hopes this case raises. Will the "return" rate of these searches be so small as to disqualify them? And has the Supreme Court ever allowed one of these massive searches just because it is easier? You will see that in most cases, including checking bags at airports, the searches are the only alternative.
  The dissenting opinion
• Georgia fights driver license fingerprints
  
• Legal and other challenges to fingerprinting and SSN abuses. Note Mauldin brief. It's SSN, but may be relevant.
• Letter from Wade Hobbs, Association to Stop Unconstitutional Fingerprinting. Contains statement of purpose, information, and links to important sites.
• Bernie Hubner reviews the constitutional history of the fingerprinting question in Maine
• The courts are beginning to back off from earlier'anything goes' drug search policy according to the New York Times. Privacy and constitutional guarantees are gaining legal precedents.

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