The police need a warrant before they can enter the premises. If you invite them inside, all bets are off. When a police officer asks if they can step inside my home, I politely decline and step outside to speak with them.
This ruling only says they don't have to have a reason to ASK to search. It doesn't say they don't have to have a warrent to search without permission. Just refuse if they ask. Don't invite them inside, don't sign any agreements to allow searches. IOW, protect your constitutional rights as you should always have been doing.
There is nothing particularly sinister about this ruling.
You are right. Everybody view the video on youtube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3NmC5wHfCdM
Flex your rights. The ACLU isn't completely worthless, they have done a couple of useful things.
nj.com also sets a javascript string in the browser cache for tracking.
Vampires are like that too.
The police entered my house when I had them called on me for having an outside fireplace. My front door was unlocked and I saw the lights from their cars so I walked to the front of my house. There I met with the fire capt and he and I walked thru my back gate. I thought the cop would follow but nope he walked thru my house, checked out my sons rooms and then walked down my back steps to the backyard. I asked him what right he had to come into my house and he said I am allowed to walk into your house as your front door was unlocked!! I didnt get in trouble for having the fireplace and I made sure to get a letter from the fire capt saying so as my neighbors hate my fireplace. I wanted to ask for the badge # of the cop but as we have 3 HD's in the garage I figured we would be targeted each time we rode. Now I keep all doors locked.
Not always true.
That happens often at your house, does it?
Many people (other than lawyers, judges, police officers and informed members of the public) don't understand that they can immediately send the police away without worrying about being harassed:
[NJ Justice Barry] Albin countered that unlike a motorist stopped on the road and threatened with a traffic citation, someone who is at home "can send the police away without fear of immediate repercussions."
When I hear judges or lawyers making statements like that above, it REALLY angers me. Like "everybody knows" that fact, Justice Albin. Albin is an elitist jerk.
How often does a police officer ask to step inside your home?
All they need is permission.
When a police officer asks if they can step inside my home, I politely decline and step outside to speak with them.
Why would they ask to step inside your home?