“Police officers may only conduct a search following a traffic stop if they believe there is probable cause a crime was committed”
Finally, a California court rules correctly on something. Now just rule that bringing in a “drug dog” to sniff around your car to pretend to give you probable cause is itself a search, and we’ll be getting somewhere.
>>Now just rule that bringing in a “drug dog” to sniff around your car to pretend to give you probable cause is itself a search, and we’ll be getting somewhere.
Whether it is a search or not, I don’t think this rises to the level of an unreasonable search IF it is conducted on property that is controlled by the state OR the property owner has given the police permission to do this. If a dog gets a whiff at a locker at a school, that’s fine.
Whipping out a dog anywhere you want to do this is a completely different matter.