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📜 Search needs a warrant
Before anyone in authority searches a home, a judge usually has to agree that there is a good reason. That permission is called a warrant. Proof found in an unlawful search may not be allowed in court.
📜 In the game: “Search needs a warrant”
A judge must agree before anyone searches a home.
You learn this law in Search the scrap yard?, in the Sun-Gear mystery. Then you can pass it in your town Council, where it belongs to 🕊️ Liberty.
+ Fewer snoop drones − Thieves a little bolder
Every law in the game has an upside and a cost, just like real rules.
In real life
Police in many countries need a warrant to search a house, except in an emergency. The rule keeps homes private and stops searches on a hunch.
Think about it
If a search finds real proof but broke the rules, should the proof still count? What happens to everyone’s privacy if it does?