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Accuracy; airport; alert; canine; dog; false alert; Fourth Amendment; government interest; handler; handler cue; home; illegal substance; inaccurate; inaccurate alert; individual’s interest; K9; pat down; pedestrian; police; police dog; privacy; probable cause; public safety; reasonable expectation of privacy; reasonable suspicion; scent; search; seizure; smell; sniff; standardized training; target odor; threshold; vehicle; warrant; California v. Acevedo; Florida v. Jardines
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Who Let The Dogs Out—And While We’Re At It, Who Said They Could Sniff Me?: How The Unregulated Street Sniff Threatens Pedestrians’ Privacy Rights, Jacey Lara Gottlieb
Who Let The Dogs Out—And While We’Re At It, Who Said They Could Sniff Me?: How The Unregulated Street Sniff Threatens Pedestrians’ Privacy Rights, Jacey Lara Gottlieb
Brooklyn Law Review
The Fourth Amendment affords United States citizens the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Throughout the last two centuries, the Supreme Court has developed extensive case law that has created a somewhat formulaic approach to determining whether one’s Fourth Amendment rights have been violated—namely, the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test. The Court has applied this test to afford the home, vehicle, airport, and the pedestrian all varying levels of privacy rights, and has upheld most of these respective levels of privacy in the context of the police canine sniff. The …