Searchs by conservation officers

So Kooty??? Does that mean no more hugs in the boat because you’ll think I am patting you down???

Kooty,
I hope your not a part of the “anal minority” who believes in the preservation of individual rights. If so than count me in that minority too. Individual rights are paramount in our free society and need to be preserved. A limited “pat down” search for weapons, even when legal is an invasion of privacy, just not as intrusive as a search after an arrest. I guess my main point was the courts have said there are circumstances when an officer would be justified in that invasion of privacy for “safety’s sake” and I was trying to shed a little light on the legal justifications for it.
Shane

Back to the original statement of the CO frisking everyone or almost everyone. Why the heck is he doing it? His brass has got to tell him too stop because hes just searching too many people and inconvienceing too many sportsman. Maybe a call too his superior as he needs to know of his actions and would talk to him and set him straight on the thngs to do and not to do. I’d sure hate too see him on the receiveing end of a major discomfort zone situation just because he needs his eyes opened.

Kooty & STG113,
Thanks guys for stating your positions very well. I agree with you. I am against checking everyone for no reason. If I have given a L.E.O. a reason to pat me down, then go ahead. I’m just against pat downs for no reason!
I would like to thank all Officers for the position that they take to protect my safety!

Wow leave the computer world for a couple of days and this tread is still going.
Wow kooty and 113, Thanks for educating us on the law.
I learned a few things.
For the record I have found this a very interesting thread.
To see so many sportsman (and women) so disrupted about pat downs, well for lack of a better discription, I find it interesting. And I can agree with both sides but I think that unless you are hiding something the pat down is not that big a deal. Now if it comes to the med gloves coming out than that’s where I draw the line
It is interesting to from my view as a reserve officer and seeing all the searchs I have witnessed and taken part in no one has ever denighed the pat down. It maybe do to the uniform and the authority bestowed to it. But I would think that anyone who has a real problem with it would speak up.
And for the record I have never been patted down in the field.>>>Well maybe by the other half.