Comments on: Warrantless police access to hotel records https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/warrantless-police-access-hotel-records/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:30:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Supreme Court roundup - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/warrantless-police-access-hotel-records/comment-page-1/#comment-320416 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:30:22 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=51604#comment-320416 […] warrantless access to hotel guest registries [James Copland on Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz brief; earlier Cato […]

]]> By: Allan https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/warrantless-police-access-hotel-records/comment-page-1/#comment-319779 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:02:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=51604#comment-319779 I write to point out that this is not a case of an individual traveller (or travellers as a group) complaining of a violation of the fourth amendment. As odious as it seems, there does not seem to be any prohibition on the hoteliers voluntarilly giving up their records. Thus, it seems that, once you give a business your information, you have forfeited your rights to the information under the fourth amendment.

I agree with the CATO view. The government should not be able to search those records without permission from the record holder or a warrant.

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