I can find no case law on vehicle registration checks. I was running some checks the other day in referenece to a stolen vehicle bolo. A supervisor told me that I was breaking the law because I had no "probable cause". The debate turned heavy. He then accused me of "fishing" for violations. He even went as far to say he "observed" violate someones "rights" by runnining their tag for no reason, but refused to get into details.
I went and pulled the GCIC rule book and only found that you cant use the information for "personal reasons". I cannot find any case law in reference to the matter such as a defedant challenging a privacy issue or 4th amendment reason for the tag not to be ran.
My belief is that someone heard a check over the scanner and made a compliant. This is a small rural town, everyone knowns everyone. Iv been here for four months comming from an agency were my main focus was crime suppression, not the crime ignorance that is the norm here.
I went and pulled the GCIC rule book and only found that you cant use the information for "personal reasons". I cannot find any case law in reference to the matter such as a defedant challenging a privacy issue or 4th amendment reason for the tag not to be ran.
My belief is that someone heard a check over the scanner and made a compliant. This is a small rural town, everyone knowns everyone. Iv been here for four months comming from an agency were my main focus was crime suppression, not the crime ignorance that is the norm here.
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