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Officials: Random Searches Not Part of Washington State Ferry-Security Plan.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2003

By Ray Rivera, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 30--The state ferry system will not reintroduce random vehicle searches under a new ferry-security plan expected to be submitted for federal approval as early as today, according to state ferry and law-enforcement officials.

The 80-page plan was required as part of the 2002 Maritime Security Act intended to protect the nation's ports and shipping lanes from terrorist attack. Provisions in that act tentatively called for a percentage of vehicles boarding commuter ferries to be searched. The percentage would go up as the nation's security-threat level increased.

But citing search-and-seizure protections in the Washington State Constitution, ferry-security planners...

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