Safety for Children at a campground

Dutch_12078 wrote:

et2 wrote:

John S. wrote:


The first thing they do is one of the employees in a golf cart rushes up to the main gate and locks it down. Then he inspects every vehicle before they are let out.

Just a little concerned about that statement and the constitutional ramifications of it. The fourth amendment sorta spells it out. I didn't know that when one goes camping their rights are just thrown out the window.

What's this country coming to. Now you have campgrounds acting like law enforcement. The nanny state is alive and well.

From the Cornell Law School web site:

A search occurs when an expectation of privacy that society considers reasonable is infringed by a governmental employee or by an agent of the government. Private individuals who are not acting in either capacity are exempt from the Fourth Amendment prohibitions.

www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fourth_amendment

I'm just spitballing here, and I agree with the Cornell Law School's interpretation and the good intentions of the campground, but what do they say about a non-government agent holding someone against their will? What law, if any, applies when a person does not consent to a search of their RV, wants to leave the campground, and the groundskeeper or camp host will not allow them passage.

I know that most would probably comply with a quick look in their car or pickup, but a Class A would require a more extensive search. And don't inject the if you have "nothing to hide" argument, because I don't care one way or the other. I'm strictly just wandering if the camp host or owner would be running into legal entanglements for illegally detaining someone against their wishes.