A warrant is only required for a police search. You can agree to have anyone search your property as a resolution to any legal agreement if you want to.
A warrant is required for all government search, and I can just as easily waive my right for a warrant w/ the police.
In fact, a workers for the municipality is the very last government level Id want snooping in my house. Next thing I know Im getting fined for having the wrong colored bathroom tiles.
> A warrant is required for all government search,
False. (As, also, is the upthread claim that "A warrant is only required for a police search")
Reasonableness is required for all government search, warrants are usually (but not categorically, there are all kinds of established exceptions to the warrant requirement) required for reasonableness.
For example, if you enter into an agreement with your state to be a foster parent, you also have to agree for the state to inspect your home regularly. It's part of the agreement - no warrant required.
The state is free to make search a condition of an agreement. So if the state wants to say "Agree to a search or we will pursue criminal proceedings", you are free to accept or deny their agreement.
Agreeing to a search as part of access to a nonessential service is quite different from being extorted with the thread of criminal proceedings if you don't allow them to violate your rights.
I think this point is needlessly pedantic because it hasn’t much to do with the topic at hand. GP’s point was that you were wrong to say that warrants are _only_ required for police searches.
The search we’re talking about here is very much the kind of search that warrants a warrant.
At least in the state of Washington, only police officers are authorized to execute warrants. So I don't feel like I am being pedantic. If you are saying it requires a warrant, it's officially a police search.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills in this thread and no one has an idea of what a warrant actually is and they are just throwing it around like a magic word.
