{"id":63058,"date":"2026-02-05T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63058"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:28:34","slug":"mt-when-officers-lawfully-get-id-they-can-run-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63058","title":{"rendered":"MT: When officers lawfully get ID, they can run it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Running defendant\u2019s name after lawfully asking for ID led to a warrant, and it was all reasonable. <a href=\"https:\/\/juddocumentservice.mt.gov\/getDocByCTrackId?DocId=554941\">State v. Fish<\/a>, 2026 MT 12 (Feb. 3, 2026)*:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At no point during his interaction with Fish did Deputy Kammerzell breach the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s or Article II, Section 11&#8217;s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. Deputy Kammerzell approached Fish as a community caretaker with particularized suspicion to investigate a possible criminal trespass. Furthermore, the circumstances necessitated that Deputy Kammerzell document Fish&#8217;s identity to check whether he had been previously evicted, and to document the notice in case Fish came back to Windiggers [a bar] after his privilege to be on the premises was revoked. Once dispatch informed Deputy Kammerzell of the warrant, further particularized suspicion arose justifying the prolonged seizure of Fish until dispatch was able to confirm its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running defendant\u2019s name after lawfully asking for ID led to a warrant, and it was all reasonable. State v. Fish, 2026 MT 12 (Feb. 3, 2026)*: At no point during his interaction with Fish did Deputy Kammerzell breach the Fourth &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63058\">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":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63058","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=63058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63059,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63058\/revisions\/63059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}