{"id":2306,"date":"2008-12-08T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T15:59:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T15:59:52","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Statutory requirement to investigate child abuse allegations promptly is not exigent circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State child protection statute that requires that investigations be done promptly does not ipso facto become exigent circumstances for an entry into a home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/06\/06-20763-CV0.wpd.pdf\">Gates v. Texas Dep&#8217;t of Protective &amp; Regulatory Servs.<\/a>, 537 F.3d 404 (5th Cir. 2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can first easily dispose of any contention that the Texas Family Code&#8217;s requirement that TDPRS undertake a &#8220;prompt&#8221; investigation somehow exempts the defendants&#8217; actions from constitutional scrutiny. A statutory command to investigate allegations within twenty-four hours is not a license to ignore the Fourth Amendment, and it is unreasonable for the defendants to think otherwise. See <em>Sibron v. New York<\/em>, 392 U.S. 40, 60-61 (1968) (holding that, although a state may develop its own search and seizure law, the state may not authorize police conduct that infringes Fourth Amendment rights). Regardless of what Texas law may authorize, entry into a house by the individual defendants must satisfy Fourth Amendment standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dog sniff of a car left in the Indianapolis airport parking garage was reasonable suspicion for more. Officers keyed on the car because of other information. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca7.uscourts.gov\/tmp\/FG0XYUQL.pdf\">United States v. Grogg<\/a>, 534 F.3d 807 (7th Cir. 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}