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...complaint about rats in the neighborhood led William Gentry, a Baltimore health-department inspector, from house to house on Baltimore's Reisterstown Road until he came to the home of one Aaron D. Frank. One quick look showed the Frank house to be in "an extreme state of decay," and disclosed-as health-department officialese put it-a backyard pile of "rodent feces mixed with straw and trash and debris to approximately half a ton." But Aaron Frank refused to let the inspector in the house without a warrant. After Inspector Gentry was kept out a second time, Householder...
...Midnight Knock. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, by the tightest of decisions (5-4), upheld the fine and the 1801 Baltimore ordinance, and ruled that the health inspector's visit did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guaranteed "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures...
Apart from the fact that Inspector Gentry had ample time to secure a search warrant in the hours between his two visits to the house, noted Justice Douglas, a basic right was denied Citizen Frank. "One invasion of privacy by an official of Government can be as oppressive as another. Health inspections are important. But they are hardly more important than the search for narcotics peddlers, rapists, kidnapers, murderers and other criminal elements"-all covered, except in emergency cases, by search-warrant procedure...
Morris is also chairman of the committee on Fields of Concentration in Physical Sciences and has for several years been Sanitary Inspector to the University Health Services...
...Sanitary Inspector...