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57 UC Davis L. Rev. Online 1 (2023-2024)

handle is hein.journals/usdlro57 and id is 1 raw text is: UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW ONLINE SS #VanLife and the Right to Privacy Sabrina Safrin* Your home enjoys the highest level of Fourth Amendment protection against government intrusion; your vehicle, the least. So what happens when your home is your car? This question affects over a million Americans who currently live in vans, trailers, and other vehicles. And this is just the beginning. Wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, and other climate change disasters will displace an unprecedented number of Americans. Inevitably, legions of these climate refugees will live in vehicles. Many already do. Vehicular residences are filled with personal and private items typically found in a home. A knock on the window followed by a police search can reveal almost everything about the inhabitant. And the meager protections that vehicle dwellers enjoy under extant Fourth Amendment doctrine are weakening even further as states and municipalities criminalize vehicle- dwelling practices. If living in a vehicle is a crime, then even pillows, drawers of clothing and chests of food are evidence of a crime, opening the door to all manner of government intrusion. With states rushing to criminalize abortion, pregnant vehicle dwellers and their partners and allies are particularly at risk. Copyright © 2023 Sabrina Safrin. Professor of Law and Arthur Dickson Scholar. Rutgers Law School. The author thanks Jeremy Hirsh, David Noll, George Thomas, Deborah Way and participants in the Rutgers Faculty Forum for helpful comments. The author also thanks Soorim Choi for helpful research assistance as well as the editors of the UC Davis Law Review. 1

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