If a situation arose where you could find something on Google, would you refrain from searching it? What about an online public government-run database? What ab

If a situation arose where you could find something on Google, would you refrain from searching it? What about an online public government-run database? What about reddit? What about Facebook? Where do you draw the line? The courts have already answered this question for a different audience: the police. There is already a rich legal body of knowledge and practice that governs where and when searches are appropriate. That should be the minimum baseline for mental health professionals. If a police officer, a person trained and vetted by the legal system to detect threats and use (up to lethal) force to end them cannot access this data, there is no way that some damn civilian should have access. If you want access, get a court order, just like a police officer, just like a state attorney. No court order? Fuck right off. In your case, I can easily see a judge saying that the person in question is legally mandated to turn over social media accounts for some period of time as a condition of their sentence or parole.