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rsdsharp

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4. This was decided by the US Supreme Court in 1979.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 01:35 PM

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In Brown v Texas, 443 US 47 (1979), the Court held that police cannot require a person to produce ID unless they have reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime afoot, based on specific objective facts.

The Alabama Supreme Court can expand those rights in the state, thereby making the ID test even more restrictive to the police, but they cannot loosen it.

Watering plants while black is not reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime.

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