Faulkner v. State

RODOWSKY, Judge.

At issue here is the constitutionality of the warrantless search of an employee’s workplace locker conducted with the police present by a private employer. We shall uphold the search as reasonable under all the circumstances, including particularly appellant’s denial that the locker was being used by him.

Brandon Faulkner (Faulkner), the appellant, was employed by the Parks Sausage Company (Parks) at its plant in the Camden Industrial Park in Baltimore City. Parks’s management had received complaints from employees about widespread use of drugs and alcohol on the job,…