Opinion ID: 888130
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: issues

Text: ¶7 Is the probation condition mandating that Greeson's home be open and available for her probation officer to visit unconstitutional? ¶8 The first probation condition challenged by Greeson requires, in relevant part, that she will make [her] home open and available for the Probation & Parole Officer to visit as required per policy. Greeson contends this condition obviates the reasonable cause standard required for a search of a probationer's residence and violates her right to privacy. ¶9 We recently addressed this very question in Moody. There, the appellant challenged a probation condition identical to the one at issue here on the same constitutional basis. Determining that a home visit is not a search, we also determined that a probationer has no reasonable expectation of privacy that would preclude home visits from taking place. Moody, ¶¶ 22-24 (citations omitted). We ultimately held that, as a routine and reasonable component of supervising a convicted person during a term of supervised release, home visits are not subject to the reasonable cause standard applicable to probation searches. Moody, ¶ 28. ¶10 Moody is controlling precedent on this issue. On that basis, we conclude the probation condition mandating that Greeson's home be open and available for her probation officer to visit is not unconstitutional.