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Chalking tires for parking enforcement ruled unconstitutional by fed appeals court

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The age-old parking enforcement practice of tire-chalking is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, saying it violated the Fourth Amendment's bar on unreasonable searches.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in a first-of-its-kind decision, ruled that marking a car's tires to gather information is a form of trespass requiring a warrant, similar to police attaching a GPS to a vehicle to track a suspected drug dealer.Parking attendants across the [...]

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