Chapter 7: Inspections and Regulatory Searches Flashcards
This chapter covers ____________ and _________ ____________ searches.
There are 3 categories which make the two seem like one in the same search:
administrative; special needs
- Searches are oftentimes not conducted by law enforcement.
- conducted by independent public agencies. - agencies do not conduct these searches to collect / investigate evidence of crime.
- Agencies don’t have to follow strict probable cause.
____________ searches are carried out by ________ agencies to ensure that local ___________ are being followed. Other searches are carried out by _________ agencies to ensure codes are being followed regarding, say, _________ _________, or __________ ________ __________.
Administrative; govt; ordinances; federal; mine safety; nuclear power plants
Administrative searches are mainly just to ensure public ____________ are being followed, usually with a ________ penalty, and in some minor cases a __________ penalty, if these rules aren’t followed. These searches are conducted to maintain the public __________, and do not require __________ ________ or a _________.
ordinances; civil; criminal; welfare; probable cause; warrant
Special needs searches aren’t really conducted by __________ ___________. They range from ________ screeners, to __________, to _________ officers. They too are in the interest of maintaining the public _________, are not in the interest of investigating __________ ___________, and do not require a __________ or __________ ____________. Most of the time, they’re based on _____________ _________, but those carrying out special needs searches don’t have to _________ suspicion.
police officers; airport; teachers; probation; welfare; criminal activity; warrant; probable cause; reasonable suspicion; articulate
Searches of ________ and _____________ are conducted by ___________ ___________ and law enforcement alike.
homes; businesses; administrative agencies
Administrative inspections
searches performed by administrative agencies to ensure
-homes,
-apartments
-businesses,
- factories,
etc.
are following broad range of regulations.
In Camara v. Municipal Court, (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that an ___________ allowing administrative ___________, conducted by admin. agencies, for ________, _________, ________ inspectors to enter a private residence w/o a ___________ based on __________ ____________violates the 4th Amendment, and leaves people w/ no protection against _____________ by administrative agencies.
ordinance; inspections; fire; housing; health; warrant; probable cause; intrusion
The Supreme Court conceded that it’s almost impossible for an administrative agency to prove _____________ __________ that a specific building / home has a _____________. Even ____________ of a building sometimes don’t realize something like an _____________ malfunctioning. So, the Court ruled administrative agencies may get a warrant to search buildings / homes based on _____________-_________ _________.
probable cause; defect; occupants; elevator; modified-probable cause
Modified-Probable Cause
- Administrative searches allowed to base their searches on a broader sense of probable cause rather than specific structures.
Allows admin agencies to conduct inspection searches of
- homes of a certain age and design,
or
- certain homes / buildings within an area of a city.
Closely Regulated Business Exception
Exception to Warrant requirement
Warrantless probable cause searches are permitted when searching heavily regulated businesses.
In New York v. Burger, (1987), Joseph Burger owned an automobile junkyard. Police showed up to the ___________, and found that Burger didn’t have the required ___________ to operate a _____________, and did not maintain the required __________ for _____________ and __________ parts. So the police inspected the junkyard, and found several __________ automobiles and vehicle parts. Burger was arrested on counts of lacking required ______________, and being in possession of ____________ property. The Court ruled, the officers have the right to conduct a ____________ - __________ _________ search under the _____________ _____________ ___________ exception.
Because automobile junkyards were subject to a number of administrative regulations and routine _____________, they qualified as __________ _________ ____________. The interest of police to ensure “auto-dismantlers” were not engaged in the _________ and __________ of __________ vehicles or vehicle parts outweighed the interest of the junkyard owner, Burger’s, privacy interest. Also his privacy interest were protected by adequate New York ordinances which said business is subject to inspections during business hours and limited to __________ , __________ , and __________ parts.
junkyard; license; junkyard; records; automobiles; vehicle; stolen; license; stolen; warrantless-probable cause search; closely regulated business
Police may seize _________ in _______ _________ that they find during an ___________ inspection. If the police intend to launch a full blown _____________ investigation, then they must obtain a ___________ based on _______ ________, and may no longer rely on an administrative warrant (does this mean before they were relying on the modified p.c. warrant?).
evidence; plain view; administrative; criminal; warrant; probable cause
Special needs searches are not meant to meet the needs of law enforcement. They’re intended to promote public ____________ and ____________. The ______________ of a special needs search is determined by balancing the ____________ of the govt against the ______________ rights of individuals. Special needs searches do not require a _________ or _________ _________.
safety; welfare; reasonableness; interest; privacy; warrant; probable cause
Two Step Analysis of Special Needs Search
(Evaluating whether a search qualifies as a special needs search)
- First Step: Does search meet some special need beyond the special needs of law enforcement.
- Second Step: Reasonableness Test. Does the govt. interest outweigh the privacy interest of public.
- In case where probable cause / warrant would limit govt’s ability to conduct search, court holds that it’s reasonable for searches to be conducted on a lesser standard of reasonable suspicion or no articulable suspicion at all.
Types of Special Needs Searches:
- Border Searches: searches may be conducted w/o __________ ___________ or __________ _________. Nonroutine searches must at least be based on ____________ _________.
- Automobile checkpoints: automobiles have to stop at checkpoints for ___________ safety.
- Airport Screening of Passengers: airport passengers’ belongings may be searched w/o ___________ _____________.
- Drug Testing in Workplace: When people work __________ jobs where ___________ safety of others is at risk, drug testing may be required w/o _________ ___________.
- School drug testing and Searches: drug testing of students may be conducted w/o __________ __________, but searches purses & backpacks requires _____________ _____________.
- Probationers and parolees: Anyone under __________ supervision has a diminished __________ of privacy. That said searches of probationers and parolees require _____________ __________.
- Prisoners: prisoners have zero ___________ of privacy in their cells, and their ________ may be searched w/o ____________ __________. Anyone who the prisoner comes in contact w/ outside of the prison is also subject to a __________.
probable cause; reasonable suspicion; reasonable suspicion
highway
reasonable suspicion
dangerous; public; reasonable suspicion
reasonable suspicion; reasonable suspicion
state; expectation; reasonable suspicion
expectation; cells; reasonable suspicion; search
Border Exception
- Exception to Warrant requirement of the 4th Amendment.
- Law enforcement conducting searches at the U.S. border w/o reasonable suspicion is reasonable based on the U.S. interest in keeping criminal activity from entering the country.
The govt interest in keeping criminal activity from entering our borders far outweighs the minute interest of people seeking entry to the country.
In Almeida-Sanchez v. US, (1973), the Supreme Court ruled the ____-________ border is not the only border of the United States. Court ruled that the border included ________ ___________ to the border : border (inspection) ___________ close to the border, the intersection of two _____________ leading from the border, and the landing area of a nonstop __________ from _________ territory into the U.S. is also the border. The Court ruled that while _________ ____________ were important for apprehending ____________ immigrants who evaded border inspection, stopping people _____ miles north of the U.S.-Mexico boarder w/o __________ ___________ is unreasonable, as people already _____ miles north of the boarder are too _________-________ from the area where inspection can be conducted without reasonable suspicion.
U.S.-Mexico; functional equivalents; station; highways; flight; foreign; roving patrols; undocumented; 20; reasonable suspicion; 20; far-removed
In United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, (1975), the Supreme Court ruled that EXCEPT for the ________ and the ________ _________ of the __________, officers have a right to conduct searches of vehicles outside of the ___________ ONLY IF the officers have ____________ facts coupled with reasonable ___________ that would lead a reasonable person to conclude that a vehicle may contain people who are __________ in the country.
border; functional equivalent; border; border; articulable; inferences; illegally
Routine Border Searches
The kind of search you’d experience at the airport: basic search of persons and luggage.
Doesn’t require articulable suspicion.
Non-Routine Boarder Searches
Far more intrusive than routine search.
Strip searches, body searches, and X-rays.
Require articulable suspicion because of intrusion on dignity and privacy of individual.