Anonymous tips and child abuse investigations (Erin)

Anonymous tips and child abuse investigations (Erin)

Just about every person in America would agree with the statement: child abuse is a terrible crime, and we should do whatever we can to prevent it, or to stop it.

But Americans often disagree on the details of how to do that. In particular, battles have arisen over the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and whether this amendment applies to social workers investigating a claim of child abuse or neglect, even if this claim has come from an anonymous tipster and there has been no corroborating evidence that it might be true.