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вЂњOur professional and hard-working men and women law enforcement officers are extremely adept and adaptable to changes in the law,вЂќ said Chris Tomasi, assistant general counsel ofВ the Police Officers Association of Michigan, a public employee labor organization.

Others believe that, however training changes, police officers will work to comply. 'ItвЂ™s just a further tuning of the search and seizure laws. вЂњWithin our profession, IвЂ™ve not seen shock' over the ruling, he said.

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Many law enforcement agencies routinely update training for their personnel and anticipate having to tweak instructions based on legal developments, said Robert Stevenson, executive director ofВ the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, which has about 1,100 members statewide. вЂњIn general, these changes occur from time to time and law enforcement adjusts to them,' Bourgeois said. No changes are expected at this point, he added. The Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, which sets training guidelines at the state'sВ basic training academies for officers, has reviewed the curriculum at those sites, contacted the leaders there as well as pored over the state licensing exam to see if any adjustments are needed, executive director Tim Bourgeois said. In a statement, Michigan State Police spokeswomanВ Shanon Banner said: вЂњWe are reviewing the ruling and will publish a legal update to ensure our members are aware of the case-specific circumstances of this ruling.вЂќ ItвЂ™s just common sense that the police will now need to ask passengers: вЂMind if I search that bag?вЂ™вЂќ вЂњвЂ¦The Fourth Amendment is all about common sense and reasonable expectations of privacy and social norms. The ruling is significant вЂњbecause it cleared up an area in which the Supreme Court had gotten the law wrong,вЂќ said David Moran, a University of Michigan law professor who leads the Michigan Innocence Clinic. вЂњBecause (the driver) did not have apparent common authority over the backpack, the search of the backpack was not based on valid consent and is per se unreasonable unless another exception to the warrant requirement applies,вЂќ the court ruled. McCormack compared the situation to someone using a ride-sharing service. The decision overruled the courtвЂ™s previous 2007 decision that stopped passengers from challenging a search of a car in which they were traveling.Д¬hief Justice Bridget McCormack noted Mead had вЂњa legitimate expectation of privacy in his backpack that society is willing to recognize as reasonable,вЂќ which are key in invoking the Fourth AmendmentвЂ™s protections, and said police canвЂ™t search a passenger based on consent from a driver.

вЂњвЂ¦A person can get in a car without leaving his Fourth Amendment rights at the curb.вЂќ вЂњвЂ¦A passengerвЂ™s personal property is not subsumed by the vehicle that carries it for Fourth Amendment purposes,вЂќ the ruling stated, referring to the amendment that protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. In its unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court said the search was unconstitutional. Mead eventually was arrested, convicted as a fourth-offense habitual offender and sentenced to serve two to 10 years in prison. The backpack held marijuana and methamphetamine.

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The deputy looked in MeadвЂ™s backpack after the driver consented to a search of her car.

The driverВ was giving him a lift, the ruling said. On Monday, the court ruled in favor of a passenger, Larry Mead, who claimed his rights were violated when police in Jackson County searched his backpack in May 2014 without hisВ consent.ДЄ sheriffвЂ™s deputy had stopped the car he was riding in with an expired plate driven by a woman Mead had met earlier that night. State and local police will need to be retrained on what is allowed.вЂќ вЂњThe opinion protects Michigan citizens and visitors against unreasonable police searches,вЂќ said Michael Faraone, the Lansing-based attorney for the passenger whose case sparked the decision. A recent Michigan Supreme Court ruling on policeВ searches of passengers during traffic stops can give people more power to challenge such probes and is expected to affectВ police training in Metro Detroit and across the state, officials and legal experts say.

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