
Quoting
knoman
A friend of mine is on probation in CA. While walking down the street, a Berkeley police officer stopped him, and exercised his right to do a probation search. While one of the cops was running his license, the other cop took my friend's cell phone, and started writing down all of his contact's names and numbers out of it. His name came back clear, and when the cop wrote all of them down, he gave back the phone and said that he could go. Is this legal? I've never heard of the police doing such a thing.