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Opioid Crisis

Judge Hazelrigg-Hernandez in the Washington Court of Appeals ruled that officers’ general suspicion based on knowledge of a community opioid crisis was insufficient to justify an invasion of privacy.

Judge Hazelrigg-Hernandez in the Washington Court of Appeals ruled that officers’ general suspicion based on knowledge of a community opioid crisis was insufficient to justify an invasion of privacy.

The officers searched a vehicle after discovering two people sleeping inside of it. The “mere fact of a person sleeping in a car during the day … would not lead a reasonable person to believe that an emergency existed.

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