{"id":64687,"date":"2026-08-20T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64687"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:17:47","slug":"wa-sweat-patch-as-condition-of-release-violated-state-constitutions-privacy-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64687","title":{"rendered":"WA: Sweat patch as condition of release violated state constitution&#8217;s privacy provision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The court imposing a sweat patch on plaintiff violated his state constitutional privacy rights. Lesser intrusive measures are required. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/875850.pdf\">Bailey-Cobb v. Snohomish Cty. Dist. Court<\/a>, 2026 Wash. App. LEXIS 1871 (Aug. 17, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff stated a claim for his severe injuries after being thrown to the ground for touching the reins of a police horse by police without apparent justification because he was not resisting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/25\/25-30135.0.pdf\">Flores v. Perez<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 24648 (5th Cir. Aug. 14, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By creating an X account, defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of the posts. United States v. Branscum, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 184993 (W.D. Mo. June 22, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civil Franks claim fails for lack of materiality in the false statement. Degollado v. City of Port Lavaca, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 24919 (5th Cir. Aug. 18, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court imposing a sweat patch on plaintiff violated his state constitutional privacy rights. Lesser intrusive measures are required. Bailey-Cobb v. Snohomish Cty. Dist. Court, 2026 Wash. App. LEXIS 1871 (Aug. 17, 2026). Plaintiff stated a claim for his severe &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64687\">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":[71,52,21,18,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-searches","category-excessive-force","category-franks-doctrine","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687","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=64687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64688,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687\/revisions\/64688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}