Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee is a special-needs probationary search or a law-enforcement search

QUESTION PRESENTED In March 2017, a United States Marshal Service search of probationers and supervisees known as “Operation Spring Sweep” involved nearly 200 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers and resulted in fifty-one arrests. Cumberland County Probation Office supervisors directed certain probation officers to select some of their supervisees to participate. One of those selected was the petitioner, Javion Scott. The question presented is: Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee as part of a United States Marshal Service search is a special-needs probationary search governed by Griffinv. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868 (1987), or whether it is, rather, a law-enforcement search subject to the balancing test of United States v. Knights, 534 U.S. 112 (2001). ii LIST OF ALL DIRECTLY