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airport searches  

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  • One of the most ubiquitous places where warrantless searches take place in the United States is in airports. Commercial air passengers are not able to enter a plane without going through a metal detector or other device and are often subject to further search by wand or pat-down should the alarms be tripped. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Airport Searches]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-C1TCBN2M-L

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