The investigative methods used should be "the least intrusive means reasonably available to verify or dispel the officer's suspicion in a short period of time. The Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures.Maryland law helps to set out the specific conditions that must be met for a search. The Fourth Amendment prohibits the United States government from conducting "unreasonable searches and seizures. The People of this State have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State. What are Federal and Maryland Search and Seizure Laws? But cracks in the Fourth Amendment have weakened our personal security. The Fourth Amendment declares the right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures. First Amendment values in the development of search and seizure law.