DogWorld Arrives

["bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>]

So, anyone have an opinion about the reprinted AP story below?  Besides 
not parking in Canyon County, is there any other lesson here?  Is it 
constitutionally acceptable?  Is this a prize-winning strategy for 
winning the drug war?
BL


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>Canyon County-Drugs
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>Officers to use drug dogs to target vehicles in parking lots
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>    (Caldwell) -- Canyon County is losing the war against drugs, so
>Sheriff George Nourse is preparing a frontal assault that some
>critics contend may be unconstitutional.
>    Nourse says ten drug dogs working with City-County Narcotics
>Unit officers will be assigned to search for illegal drugs in
>parking lots. He told a civic group in Caldwell this week that the
>effort should result in up to 100 misdemeanor arrests per month in
>the beginning.
>    Prosecutor David Young is praising the plan, but Public Defender
>Klaus Wiebe (VEE'-bee) calls it an abuse of the constitutional
>right to privacy and some business managers aren't convinced it's a
>good idea.
>    Nourse says the dogs will sniff out the presence of drugs in
>vehicles, then investigators will wait for the driver to leave the
>parking lot before stopping and searching the vehicle.
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