The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that chalking tires to monitor how long a car is parked in a time-restricted space violates the Fourth Amendment. Basically, don't touch (chalk) my tire's without permission. A Saginaw, Michigan woman was issued 15 parking tickets in three years by the same parking enforcement officer, who's described in the suit as the city's "most prolific issuer of parking tickets." A decision was handed down by a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
That parking officer who swipes a chalk mark on your tire to keep track of how long you've been parked is violating the Constitution, a federal appeals court panel found Monday.
The court covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.