When the FBI Guys Come Knocking...

[Tim May]

On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 12:06 AM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:

> Unless you live in an apartment, and they have the permission of the
> landlord...
>
> Actually, in that case, could they not get the landlord to unlock the
> apartment door for them, if "permission to enter" is granted in your
> lease? What are the warrant requirements for this?

The Fourth still applies, even to hotel and motel residents (where the 
owner of course enters on a daily basis).

If it did not apply, then entire hotels and motels and apartment 
buildings would be swept for contraband, illegal sex material, drugs, 
guns, etc.

There was a controversial case in Chicago, which may still be pending, 
where the Housing Authority (?) was proposing to sweep the apartments it 
administered for guns. Civil libertarians pointed out the issues.

--Tim May