Amendment 4

1. Source: Ohio AG Dept. & State's Top Cop Sued For Food CO-OP Raid. January 7,2009.
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news119.htm

2. Constitutional Connection: Amendment 4 Search and Seizure

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

3. Explanation of Connection:
The fourth amendment protects peoples' privacy by stopping authorities from unlawfully coming into their homes and searching and taking their personal items. Authorities now need a warrant or document from  the government saying they can enter the home or area owned by a certain person.

This article clearly demonstrates how a person's fourth amendment being violated because the health department raided their home without warning or warrant.John and Jacqueline Stowers owns a company that makes organic food. This company is private and is not open to the public. Their house was raided by the sheriff with weapons. The sheriff and his group were equipped with weapons but no warrant they had no right.

I do not see why the sheriff was not punished. He had no right to not only come into someone's house and arrest them and their children for hours, but to come in armed. They denied them with a trial breaking other rights to them. The people did not commit a crime the sheriff did he should be punished instead of the family.