{"id":249370,"date":"2026-07-22T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:16:07","slug":"pennsylvania-justices-expand-open-fields-search-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249370\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Justices Expand \u2018Open Fields\u2019 Search Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Constitution affords greater protection from searches of \u201copen fields\u201d just beyond a home or building, the state\u2019s top court ruled as it expanded residents\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlavish adherence\u201d to the 2007 ruling in Commonwealth v. Russo \u201cmust give way to the greater privacy and property protections afforded\u201d in the Pennsylvania Constitution\u2019s adapted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/statutes\/consolidated\/view-statute?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=00&amp;div=0&amp;chapter=1&amp;section=8&amp;subsctn=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version<\/a> of the Fourth Amendment, Justice P. Kevin Brobson wrote for the majority. <\/p>\n<p>The court overturned Russo, in which the court held that the state constitution\u2019s protections don\u2019t extend to open fields immediately beyond the \u201ccurtilage\u201d of a home &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Constitution affords greater protection from searches of \u201copen fields\u201d just beyond a home or building, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106673,106672,28,30,29,60675,106671,87531],"class_list":["post-249370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fish-and-wildlife","tag-injunctions","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-probable-cause","tag-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","tag-state-constitutional-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}