Goff, J.
After determining the defendant’s guilt, a trial court sometimes sentences the defendant to serve part or all of his sentence on home detention under the care of community corrections, rather than commitment to the Department of Correction. When a defendant is processed for home detention, he typically signs an agreement in which he foregoes many of his rights. These agreements frequently include consent to allow community corrections to search the defendant’s person or home to ensure compliance with other rules. Since this consent to search is a waiver of an important constitutional right, it must be clearly expressed. This case raises the issue of whether a waiver of the “right against search and seizure” clearly informs the defendant that a search may be conducted without reasonable suspicion. We hold that it does. Additional language discussing reasonable suspicion is unnecessary. When an individual waives his rights against search and seizure, this waiver clearly encompasses the right to be free from search and seizure absent reasonable suspicion.
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution both generally require police to conduct searches pursuant to a warrant supported by probable cause. State v. Schlechty, 926 N.E.2d 1, 3 (Ind. 2010). However, neither probable cause nor reasonable suspicion is required if a person on probation or home detention unambiguously consents to a warrantless and suspicionless search. State v. Vanderkolk, 32 N.E.3d 775, 779 (Ind. 2015). In Vanderkolk, police conducted a warrantless and suspicionless compliance search of the residence of Jordan Sullivan, who was on home detention. Id. at 775–76. The search revealed illegal drugs and paraphernalia. Id. at 776. Vanderkolk was living at Sullivan’s residence and was charged with various drug offenses. Id. at 775– 76. When the trial court suppressed some of the evidence, the State appealed. Id. at 776. This Court noted that placement “under either probation or a community corrections program is a matter of grace and a conditional liberty that is a favor, not a right,” and that probation searches “are necessary to the promotion of legitimate government interests.” Id. at 777, 779 (citation and quotation marks omitted). While concluding that the community-correction contract in Vanderkolk had only consented to searches upon probable cause, this Court observed that advanced consent could authorize a warrantless search without reasonable suspicion. Id. at 780.
After Vanderkolk, the Court of Appeals decided Hodges v. State, which involved substantially the same language at issue here: “You waive your right against search and seizure, and shall permit a Probation Officer, or any law enforcement officer acting on a Probation Officer’s behalf, to search your person, residence, motor vehicle, or any location where your personal property may be found, to [e]nsure compliance with probation.” 54 N.E.3d at 1057. The Hodges panel held that the phrasing unambiguously informed Hodges that he and his property could be searched without reasonable suspicion. Id. at 1061. In so holding, the panel rejected Hodges’s assertion that a waiver was only unambiguous if it specified what constitutional protections were being waived. Id.
In Jarman v. State, a different Court of Appeals panel held that a more detailed agreement did not unambiguously permit a search without reasonable suspicion. 114 N.E.3d at 915. The agreement in that case provided as follows: “I hereby waive my rights concerning searches and seizures under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and under Article 1, § 11 of the Indiana Constitution. Specifically, I hereby consent to allow employees of Community Corrections or law enforcement officers to search my person or property without a warrant and without probable cause.” Id. at 913 (emphasis added). The panel held that, because the last sentence specified that the defendant consented to searches “without a warrant and without probable cause,” Jarman did not unambiguously consent to a search without reasonable suspicion. Id. at 915.
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Ellis contends that, because the Contract is less descriptive than the contract in Jarman, the Contract couldn’t have unambiguously waived his right against searches without reasonable suspicion. This argument falls flat, however, because it was the detailed language in the Jarman contract (specifically consenting to searches “without a warrant and without probable cause”) that precluded an unambiguous waiver of Jarman’s right against a warrantless and suspicionless search… A community-corrections home -detention contract that states that the defendant “waives all rights against search and seizure” unambiguously informs the defendant that he is waiving the right against searches absent reasonable suspicion.
Ellis also contends that the language of the Contract makes no sense because there is no “right against search and seizure.” Pet. to Trans. at 7. Instead, the “right is one against unreasonable search and seizure.” Id. Therefore, Ellis argues, the Contract couldn’t have unambiguously waived his right. While Ellis is correct that the right is against unreasonable search and seizure, the absence of the word “unreasonable” does not make the Contract ambiguous. If one broadly waives the right against search and seizure, the waiver necessarily encompasses the right against unreasonable search and seizure. Because Ellis unambiguously consented to searches absent reasonable suspicion, the trial court erred when it suppressed the evidence obtained from the search of Ellis’s home.
Because the Contract unambiguously informed Ellis that he waived his right against search and seizure absent reasonable suspicion, we reverse and remand this case to the trial court for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Rush, C.J., and David, Massa, and Slaughter, JJ., concur.