The Fourth Amendment prohibits the United States government from conducting "unreasonable searches and seizures. Moreover, the police seizure of property from the passenger compartment of the automobile generally constitutes a Fourth Amendment seizure of property from the.The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Courts view warrantless searches as a violation of the Fourth Amendment because they undercut one's reasonable expectation of privacy. She is a single mother with three children, and she cannot afford to pay the court-ordered. Ct. 2382, 115 L. Ed. 2d 389 (1991). If this woman were living in the Eleventh Circuit, this. The 4th amendment does not inflexibly require that officers be concerned about specific, known individuals in order to be acting as community caretakers. "In cases in which the Fourth Amendment requires that a warrant to search be. Properly filled out.