{"id":49215,"date":"2021-07-31T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49215"},"modified":"2021-07-31T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T17:01:44","slug":"wa-request-for-proof-of-payment-of-a-bus-fare-in-not-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49215","title":{"rendered":"WA: Request for proof of payment of a bus fare is not a search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Request for proof of payment of a public transportation fare is not a seizure under the Fourth Amendment or the state constitution. Defendant consented to the terms of ridership by boarding the bus, which included paying the fare and having proof of payment.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/812033.pdf\">State v. Meredith<\/a>, 2021 Wash. App. LEXIS 1798 (July 26, 2021):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>By boarding a public bus and accepting transportation, Zachery Meredith consented to the conditions of ridership. Those conditions include paying bus fare and complying with a fare enforcement officer\u2019s request for proof of payment. Even assuming that Meredith was seized when an officer requested that he provide proof of payment, the officer\u2019s request remained within the scope of Meredith\u2019s consent. Because Meredith consented to the conditions of ridership and failed to provide proof of payment when requested, the trial court did not err by denying Meredith\u2019s motion to suppress evidence gathered by the officer conducting fare enforcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Request for proof of payment of a public transportation fare is not a seizure under the Fourth Amendment or the state constitution. Defendant consented to the terms of ridership by boarding the bus, which included paying the fare and having &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49215\">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":[24,73,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-search","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49223,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49215\/revisions\/49223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}