Reading Room Document
Use of Navy Drug-Detecting Dogs by Civilian Postal Inspectors
The Secretary of the Navy retains the discretion under the Posse Comitatus Act and Department of Defense regulations to authorize the United States Postal Inspection Service to use Navy drug-detecting dogs and their handlers to identify postal packages containing illegal narcotics. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/24341/download.
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