When the courts place the desires of government above the rights of the people

I don’t know about you, but I’m all for safety. Am I willing to sacrifice my rights for it? It seems we’re all for privacy, that is, until we find that we could have avoided some terrible event if it had been invaded. Are we willing to trade our privacy for a promise of safety? As Benjamin Franklin said:

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” - Benjamin Franklin

In the case of Scholl and Bednarz v. Illinois State Police, the privacy issue centers on automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) and what constitutes a reasonable search.

Allowing the police to search through the effects, arguably the property of those license plates they have captured without a warrant, makes that an unreasonable search. The fact that the court cannot conceive that the police would conduct illegal searches points to the myopic view so many judges have of their fellow government employees.

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