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Unfortunately this won't be something everybody can use as it's specific to military involvement in civilian investigations but as was recently uncovered in Florida, military investigators have become an integral part of CP and child enticement investigations On 9/12/2014 the 9th Circuit said that level of participation by military investigators was not permissible and violated the Posse Comitatus Act and several DoD directives.
http://tinyurl.com/mjkm9m8
The full text of the published opinion is here:
http://tinyurl.com/m9qmm6f
On thing that's interesting about this is the original "investigator" was an NCIS employee and a civilian himself. The Posse Comitatus Act does not apply directly to the Navy or civilians but the actions of this investigator offended the 9th so much they still said all the evidence should have been suppressed.
http://tinyurl.com/mjkm9m8
The full text of the published opinion is here:
http://tinyurl.com/m9qmm6f
On thing that's interesting about this is the original "investigator" was an NCIS employee and a civilian himself. The Posse Comitatus Act does not apply directly to the Navy or civilians but the actions of this investigator offended the 9th so much they still said all the evidence should have been suppressed.
This is about surveillance of private citizens of the United States. The reason that the Posse Comitatus Act was created in the first place.
"The extraordinary nature of the surveillance here demonstrates a need to deter future violations. So far as we can tell from the record, it has become a routine practice for the Navy to conduct surveillance of all the civilian computers in an entire state to see whether any child pornography can be found on them, and then to turn over the information to civilian law enforcement when no military connection exists.
This is squarely a case of the military undertaking the initiative to enforce civilian law against civilians. “There must be an exceptional reason” to invoke the exclusionary rule for violation of posse comitatus-like regulations, and the broad use of military surveillance of overwhelmingly civilian populations is an exceptional reason…."