No.
Look folks do damnable things in their youth. Sometimes they commit felonies. That doesn’t mean that they should be second class citizens for life.
If they get out of prison and clean up their act, that’s all we should ask of them.
This is more about expanding the ability of the police to enter people’s homes on a whim, than it is real public safety issue. If there is reasonable cause, these departments can get a warrant easy enough.
Once one group can be targeted for warrantless searches, the easier it is to expand the people eligible for this sort of thing. For instance, how would you like it if contributors to this and other public forums were included into that group?
Don’t sign off on this. It’s a ruse at your expense.
A felon who served his or her sentence time wouldn’t be affected by the proposed law. OTOH it only takes a stroke of a pen to push things to that point. What do other states do in this vein and how much luck have they had in suppressing crime thereby?
“Look folks do damnable things in their youth. Sometimes they commit felonies. That doesn’t mean that they should be second class citizens for life.”
First of all the warrantless searches would not be for life, but for the term of the parole.
If a thug received a 10 year sentence for attempted murder, and was paroled in 6, he would be subject to warrantless searches for the remaining 4 years he was supposed to be incarcerated.
Parole is essentially house arrest or ultr-minimum security prison. If the thugs don’t like the warrantless searches, let them serve their entire sentences behind bars.
Also, felons are, to some extent, second class citizens for life. They generally cannot own guns, vote, or be CEO’s of public corporations.