Re: DogWorld Arrives

[Kenneth Gallant <gallantk@uidaho.edu>]

Course, the lesson is that popularly elected sheriffs who respond to
popular pressure to get rid of unpopular drugs and persons in the
community are more likely to come up with populist strategies like this
that violate the the rights of the people to their privacy.

But in light of this weeks election results, what the [bleep] do I
know . . .

Kenneth S. Gallant
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2322 USA
208-885-6541 (phone)
208-885-4628 (fax)
gallantk@uidaho.edu

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, bill london wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> >
> >Canyon County-Drugs
> >
> >Officers to use drug dogs to target vehicles in parking lots
> >
> >    (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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