Chief’s Counsel: Where Policy Meets the Law
Providing Services to People with Disabilities
Police officers are intimately familiar with the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.1 The terms contained in that amendment—and how judges interpret those terms—dictate how officers perform their daily duties when conducting searches and seizures. Of course, there are myriad U.S. federal and state laws that also affect police officers’ actions, and departments’ policies and training must satisfy these as well. One such federal law is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).2

