{"id":5497,"date":"2011-05-02T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T09:18:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T09:18:52","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5497","title":{"rendered":"TX legislature considering intrusive patdowns to be a felony without PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/texas-lawmakers-considering-bill-making-invasive-pat-downs-a-felony-except-for-probable-cause\/2011\/04\/29\/AFm3USHF_story.html\">Texas lawmakers considering bill making invasive pat-downs a felony except for probable cause<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 A former Miss USA\u2019s tearful claim that she was groped during a pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport could be a criminal matter under a bill gaining momentum in the Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Texas law, aimed at people conducting security checkpoints at airports and public buildings, would make it a felony to intentionally touch someone\u2019s private areas \u2014 even on top of clothing \u2014 unless the officer or agent has probable cause to believe the person is carrying something illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5497\">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-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","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=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}