A major decision that will impact Minnesotans’ privacy rights is waiting to be heard in the state’s court of Appeals.
It all started off simply enough. Jason and Jackie Wiebesick were a Golden Valley couple who lived in a duplex. One day, officials from the city approached them to ask permission to inspect their home. The stated reason was to collect information so as to make a decision over whether to renew the Wiebesick’s rental license.
Disturbed by the prospect of unfamiliar people walking around their home, the Wiebesick’s turned down the inspectors’ request. One might think it would have ended there, but the city saw to it that it didn’t.
Taking the case to court, Golden Valley authorities implored a county judge to issue a warrant overriding the Wiebesick’s objections and allowing them into the house. Tellingly, the judge refused their request for a warrant, prompting the city to reach even higher.
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This is wrong on so many levels but anymore the government does what they want with some kind of bizarre justification.
would that be considered a home invasion and allow you to defend it?
we’re moving to a police state more and more the officails may come to need protection from it’s own citizens if they keep it up
You may inspect my home without a warrant, the first thing you will inspect is the barrel of my shotgun.
Good luck with that
Stop voting for liberals
Nope
The ACLU should be murdering that city in court for these folks!!
FOR FREE!!!
Or if the owners side had structural deficiencies that endangered the paying tenants. If this was a commercial building, people would be screaming that the corporations get to run afoul of the law and endanger innocent people. Same scenario–just not big business.
Absent a complaint or probable cause to believe that an unsafe condition exists, a SEARCH of the premises is a “FISHING EXPEDITION,” which is prohibited by the Constitution.