Court rules chalking tires for parking enforcement is unconstitutional

[left-of-center2012]

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional for a parking enforcement officer to chalk drivers' tires to keep track of how long a vehicle has been parked.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati made the decision by reinstating a 2017 case from a woman who had been issued 15 parking tickets in three years in Saginaw, Mich., according to NBC News.

The woman, Alison Taylor, said in a lawsuit that she had been issued all of the tickets by the same officer, described as the city's "most prolific issuer of parking tickets," in that timeframe.

Taylor claimed in the lawsuit that marking a car's tires with chalk should be classified as an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.

The ruling sends Taylor's lawsuit back to U.S. District Court in Bay City, Michigan.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/440166-court-rules-parking-officer-enforcing-laws-by-swiping-car-tires

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Easy way around this, simply just take a digital picture (providing the officer...

has a digital camera on their person). The digital snapshots of such vehicles could be compared automatically (if programmed) to let the officer/parking authority know of violations. Surely if the vehicle is on public property, that pictures of said vehicle would not be unconstitutional.

[Uben]

2. Body cam

Problem solved!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Yes! nt

[Locrian]

4. i've seen police / parking vehicles

driving around with cameras mounted on an arm. I assume it does time stamping and license plate capture.

[NurseJackie]

5. Chalk is old-school. Use digital photos with timestamps.

[TlalocW]

6. I've often wanted to follow a cop doing this

With a wet sponge on an extendable rod, which I would use to wipe off the the chalk mark just to see what they would do.

TlalocW