Question

1. A health inspector may rifle through desk drawers in a restaurant's office, even if the restaurant operator objects, because the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures only apply to police investigating criminal cases.

   True

   False

Answer 1

--->answer is FALSE.......Because,the search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment are all about privacy. So to protect this freedom, the Fourth Amendment protects against "unreasonable" searches and seizures by state or federal law enforcement authorities in not just criminal cases but also in civil cases.The Fourth amendment permits searches and seizures only which are reasonable. In the above example,a health inspector can search a restaurent only under reasonable circumstances.