{"id":21990,"date":"2016-05-02T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21990"},"modified":"2016-05-02T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:17:40","slug":"the-intercept-seattles-sanitation-workers-can-no-longer-pry-through-trash-without-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21990","title":{"rendered":"The Intercept: Seattle\u2019s sanitation workers can no longer pry through trash without a warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/05\/seattles-sanitation-workers-can-no-longer-pry-through-trash-without-a-warrant\/\">Seattle\u2019s sanitation workers can no longer pry through trash without a warrant<\/a> by Cyrus Farivar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Washington county judge has ruled that the city of Seattle\u2019s warrantless searches of garbage violated the state\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In her 14-page order, King County Judge Beth Andrus found in favor of eight Seattle residents whose trash was searched by sanitation workers. The workers were operating under a city ordinance that allowed them to inspect trash for possible violations of a city composting law. Violators could be fined $1 if they mistakenly put food waste into their regular garbage rather than organic waste bins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: Seattle\u2019s sanitation workers can no longer pry through trash without a warrant by Cyrus Farivar: A Washington county judge has ruled that the city of Seattle\u2019s warrantless searches of garbage violated the state\u2019s constitution. In her 14-page order, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21992,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990\/revisions\/21992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}