Bill Text: MN HF1502 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Probation officers' unannounced searches of persons on probation or pretrial release authorized.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-18 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance [HF1502 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF1502-Introduced.html

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A bill for an act

relating to public safety; authorizing probation officers to conduct unannounced
searches of persons on probation or pretrial release;proposing coding for new
law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 244.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

    Section 1. [244.1956] SEARCHES AUTHORIZED.
As a condition of being placed on court ordered probation or pretrial release to a
county probation officer under section 244.19, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (1)
or (2), a person shall submit to unannounced searches of the person or vehicle or any
portion of a premises under the person's control by, or at the direction of, any county
probation officer for the purposes of determining compliance with the person's conditions
of probation or pretrial release.
EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2011, and applies
to individuals on conditional release before trial or placed on probation following
adjudication or conviction on or after that date.