{"id":8406,"date":"2013-05-21T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:00:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8406","title":{"rendered":"KS: Public housing employee inspecting apartment was not &#8220;government actor&#8221; for Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public housing employee came to an apartment to check for damage from a sewer back up. She knocked, got no answer, and entered defendant\u2019s apartment. Inside, she found two unconscious persons and \u201cdrugs and things.\u201d She called the police. That was a valid private search, following  <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=17045927795629073940&amp;q=378+F.+Supp.+2d+50&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">United States v. Couch<\/a>, 378 F. Supp. 2d 50, 58 (N.D. N.Y. 2005), which held public housing employees in a similar situation were not &#8220;government actors&#8221; for purposes of the Fourth Amendment (same result under state constitution). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/opinions\/SupCt\/2013\/20130215\/100888.pdf\">State v. Brittingham<\/a>, 296 Kan. 597, 294 P.3d 263 (2013).<\/p>\n<p>Cracked windshield can support a stop as a defect in equipment. <a href=\"http:\/\/opinions.aoc.arkansas.gov\/WebLink8\/0\/doc\/311234\/Page1.aspx\">Villanueva v. State<\/a>, 2013 Ark. 70 (February 21, 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8406\">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-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","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=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}