{"id":7094,"date":"2012-05-10T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:08:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:08:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7094","title":{"rendered":"How the War on Drugs Distorts Privacy Law by Jane Yakowitz Bambauer (a preview of <em>Jardines<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfordlawreview.org\/online\/war-on-drugs-privacy-law\">How the War on Drugs Distorts Privacy Law<\/a> by Jane Yakowitz Bambauer, 64 Stan. L. Rev. Online 131:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Supreme Court will soon determine whether a trained narcotics dog\u2019s sniff at the front door of a home constitutes a Fourth Amendment search. Jardines, 132 S. Ct. 995 (No. 11-564), 2011 WL 5254666. The case, Florida v. Jardines, has privacy scholars abuzz because it presents two possible shifts in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. First, the Court might expand the physical spaces rationale from Justice Scalia\u2019s majority opinion in United States v. Jones.<\/p>\n<p>A favorable outcome for Mr. Jardines could reinforce that the home is a formidable privacy fortress, protecting all information from government detection unless that information is visible to the human eye.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, and more sensibly, the Court may choose to revisit its previous dog sniff cases, United States v. Place and Illinois v. Caballes. This precedent has shielded dog sniffs from constitutional scrutiny by finding that sniffs of luggage and a car, respectively, did not constitute searches. Their logic is straightforward: since a sniff \u201cdiscloses only the presence or absence of narcotics, a contraband item,\u201dId. at 409 (quoting Place, 462 U.S. at 707), a search incident to a dog\u2019s alert cannot offend reasonable expectations of privacy. Of course, the logical flaw is equally obvious: police dogs often alert when drugs are not present, resulting in unnecessary suspicionless searches. See id. at 411-12 (Souter, J., dissenting). See also Florida v. Harris, 71 So. 3d 756 (Fla. 2011), cert. granted, 132 S. Ct. 1796 (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Curiously missing from any Supreme Court opinion is a reflection on how contraband-detecting dogs fundamentally change law enforcement. Police dogs are old technology, but their widespread use ushers in a new model of policing. Like pattern-based data mining, dog sniffs produce tradeoffs inherent in dragnet-style law enforcement. They redistribute the burden of unproductive searches from the few-but-stereotypically \u201csuspicious\u201d to the entire population.<\/p>\n<p>This Essay presents new qualitative research based on the facts of Florida v. Jardines. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7094\">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-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","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=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}