myspiderungoliant
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The company I work for has recently enacted a new policy. The exact wording is "--- reserves the right to question employees and all other persons entering or leaving our premises, and to inspect any packages, parcels, purses, backpacks, briefcases, lunchboxes, or any other possessions or articles carried to or from ---'s property. In addition, --- reserves the right to search any employee's office, desk, files, locker, lunch box, car or any other area or article on our premises.
Employees, prospective employees, customers, visitors, vendors, etc, should have no expectations of privacy."
Basically any person entering the property can have their personal items such as backpacks, purses and vehicles searched. I understand that desks, lockers, and filing cabinets are the property of the company I work for, but can they legally search the private property of ANYONE who comes onto their property? This is part of an effort to keep drugs and controlled substances off the property and to make sure no equipment is stolen. They have a clause that "Searches shall be conducted on reasonable suspicion," but they have been very loose with this term with other policies enacted.
So can a business in the state of Utah legally search your vehicle, backpack, or other private property without some kind of warrant?
If this is illegal, can you please give links to websites that I can show to our human resources director.
Employees, prospective employees, customers, visitors, vendors, etc, should have no expectations of privacy."
Basically any person entering the property can have their personal items such as backpacks, purses and vehicles searched. I understand that desks, lockers, and filing cabinets are the property of the company I work for, but can they legally search the private property of ANYONE who comes onto their property? This is part of an effort to keep drugs and controlled substances off the property and to make sure no equipment is stolen. They have a clause that "Searches shall be conducted on reasonable suspicion," but they have been very loose with this term with other policies enacted.
So can a business in the state of Utah legally search your vehicle, backpack, or other private property without some kind of warrant?
If this is illegal, can you please give links to websites that I can show to our human resources director.