{"id":62309,"date":"2025-11-13T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62309"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:50:26","slug":"ca11-tsa-officers-are-leos-for-searches-under-the-ftca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62309","title":{"rendered":"CA11: TSA officers are LEOs for searches under the FTCA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TSA officers are law enforcement officers for searches under the FTCA. Five other circuits hold that. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/202410545.pdf\">Koletas v. United States<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 29609 (11th Cir. Nov. 12, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While each factor here isn\u2019t reasonable suspicion on its own, they are in their totality. State v. Rainey, 2025 Mo. App. LEXIS 762 (Nov. 12, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search probably wasn\u2019t valid under Gant, but it was under the automobile exception. United States v. Garrott, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 222461 (M.D. Ala. Nov. 12, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasonable suspicion isn\u2019t subject to the good faith exception, except for potential reasonableness making it that way. But this wasn\u2019t. State v. S.H.-M., 2025 Wash. App. LEXIS 2317 (Nov. 12, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSA officers are law enforcement officers for searches under the FTCA. Five other circuits hold that. Koletas v. United States, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 29609 (11th Cir. Nov. 12, 2025). While each factor here isn\u2019t reasonable suspicion on its own, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62309\">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":[11,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62309","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=62309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62310,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62309\/revisions\/62310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}