ALBANY – Police officers in New York don’t require suspicion of wrongdoing by occupants to check license plates on vehicles, and have probable cause to make traffic stops if the scans turn up registration violations, a unanimous Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Ruling on the question for the first time, the state’s highest court said registration checks by police and the use of the information officers glean from them don’t violate motorists’ Fourth Amendment rights.
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