That parking officer who swipes a chalk mark on your tire to keep track of how long you've been parked is violating the Constitution, a federal appeals court panel found Monday. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reinstated a 2017 case brought by Alison Taylor, who was issued 15 parking tickets in three years in Saginaw, Michigan, by the same parking enforcement officer, who's described in the suit as the city's "most prolific issuer of parking tickets." Taylor argued that marking tires with chalk constituted an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. But a U.S. district judge in Michigan dismissed the suit in 2017, writing that even if chalking a tire is a search, it's a reasonable one, because a piece of chalk isn't an "information-gathering device" that could violate Taylor's privacy, like a GPS tracker, for example. Two of the three members of the appeals panel on Monday agreed that chalking a tire is a search. But they disagreed that it was a reasonable search. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ng-rules-unconstitutional-court-finds-n997326
Clearly police dogs should be marking the tires...perhaps some colorful dye to color their stream They could go undercover by, you know...not wearing a uniform
Parking patrol, city and state police, campus cops are also un-Constitutional. Only elected officials (county sherrifs) are given legitimate policing authority in our country, for very good reasons.
And my HOA. Watching my neighbor have to pull his bigass Ford truck and his work truck into his driveway every night and out every morning so his wife can get out is HILARIOUS.
Ever since I was a young pup on the campus of Oregon State University, campus police have had the legal authority of the State police while on campus. Here's wikipedia on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_law_enforcement_in_Oregon
