Search & Seizure Workshop

Zach Miller is a police legal instructor, specializing in the constitutional law of policing. He provides training seminars to law enforcement officers, from recruits at the basic police academy to executive staff and all ranks in between. He is also regularly asked to provide his training to prosecutor groups. Zach is well-versed in all of the substantive and procedural aspects of constitutional law as it pertains to policing and is highly-sought after for his training and advice on these matters, providing his expertise to officers and agencies in over 40 states.

Zach served as a police officer for a medium-sized county police department in Virginia for 19 years, retiring in 2023. Beginning in 2013 and until his retirement, he was the department’s training manager. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the department’s training function, which included recruit, annual in-service, specialized unit, leadership, and instructor development programs. He was also a member of the department’s policy review committee where he personally drafted many of the department’s high liability policies.

For over 15 years, Zach has worked closely with nationally-recognized career police attorney Randy Means on dozens of projects, most of which directly involved constitutional policing principles. Together, they developed and presented training programs, provided advice and other consultation services to agencies involved in litigation over potentially unconstitutional practices, developed agency-specific policies and procedures for high-liability operations, co-authored numerous articles on constitutional policing and collaborated on their 2023 book, Constitutional Policing in the Era of Accountability.