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Fourth Amendment Challenges To Camping Ordinances: A Legal Strategy To Force Legislative Solutions To Homelessness, Nicholas May

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

This Article argues that Fourth Amendment challenges to camping ordinances can prompt legislative efforts to solve the problem of homelessness in U.S. cities. By properly employing the Supreme Court of the United States' judicial standard for privacy rights, courts should consider the efforts of individual cities' efforts to curb poverty when asking the following question: does society view a homeless person's expectation of privacy as reasonable?