Comments on: Random Bag Searches for Train Travel http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/02/random_bag_sear.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 2005 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/02/random_bag_sear.html/comment-page-1#comment-50254 2005 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:29:53 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/02/random-bag-searches-for-train-travel.html#comment-50254 Wow. I'm willing to pay extra for Amtrak because I can show up 5 minutes before the train leaves and not have to have rude incompetents rifle through my stuff. I may have to switch to Greyhound if this continues. Wow. I’m willing to pay extra for Amtrak because I can show up 5 minutes before the train leaves and not have to have rude incompetents rifle through my stuff. I may have to switch to Greyhound if this continues.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/02/random_bag_sear.html/comment-page-1#comment-50253 KipEsquire Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:43:27 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/02/random-bag-searches-for-train-travel.html#comment-50253 <i>"In addition to the screening, counterterrorism officers with bomb-sniffing dogs will ... walk through trains, and sometimes will ride the trains, officials said."</i> This comes perilously close to constituting a (suspicionless) dog sniff of a person's body, a uniquely instrusive search that has never been sanctioned by any court, and certainly not by the Supreme Court. “In addition to the screening, counterterrorism officers with bomb-sniffing dogs will … walk through trains, and sometimes will ride the trains, officials said.”

This comes perilously close to constituting a (suspicionless) dog sniff of a person’s body, a uniquely instrusive search that has never been sanctioned by any court, and certainly not by the Supreme Court.

]]> By: Samir Chopra http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/02/random_bag_sear.html/comment-page-1#comment-50252 Samir Chopra Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:37:38 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/02/random-bag-searches-for-train-travel.html#comment-50252 This is a real pity. Just last week, I traveled up to Union College for a talk, and was struck (once again) by how much more comfortable a train ride was than a plane trip. And now this. Refusing a bag search on the NYC subway is relatively painless; not so on a Amtrak trip, where one's destination is much further away, and trains less frequent. This is a real pity. Just last week, I traveled up to Union College for a talk, and was struck (once again) by how much more comfortable a train ride was than a plane trip. And now this. Refusing a bag search on the NYC subway is relatively painless; not so on a Amtrak trip, where one’s destination is much further away, and trains less frequent.

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