{"id":58462,"date":"2024-07-24T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58462"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:59:31","slug":"reason-the-dea-claims-to-be-able-to-search-your-bag-without-your-consent-but-can-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58462","title":{"rendered":"Reason: The DEA Claims To Be Able To Search Your Bag Without Your Consent. But Can They?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reason: The DEA Claims To Be Able To Search Your Bag Without Your Consent. But Can They?<\/a> by Patrick McDonald (\u201cRecent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen\u2019s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that\u2019s illegal.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Can federal law enforcement demand an impromptu spot-check of your bag after<\/em> you pass through airport security?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent footage released by the Institute for Justice (I.J.) shows an officer from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attempting to do precisely that. In the video<\/a>, which was recorded earlier this year, a DEA agent repeatedly attempts to search the bag of a man identified as David C., who had already passed through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint and was attempting to board his flight. At one point, the agent implies that he could search David’s backpack without his consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I don’t consent to search, sir,” David tells the officer. “You don’t have to consent,” the officer responds, adding moments later, “I don’t care [about] your consent stuff.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video shows the officer offering<\/a> David the choice between boarding the plane for his flight and staying with his bag. “Set your bag down and then you can walk on the plane,” the agent says. “You can do that, but you can’t take the bag.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Am I being detained right now?” David ask[s]. “Not you, but your bag,” the officer replies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reason: The DEA Claims To Be Able To Search Your Bag Without Your Consent. But Can They? by Patrick McDonald (\u201cRecent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen\u2019s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that\u2019s illegal.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58462","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=58462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58468,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58462\/revisions\/58468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}