The Alaska Supreme Court has long recognized that the search and seizure provision of our state constitution (Article I, Section 14) "contains an even broader guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures than is found in its federal counterpart."

We have held that this explicit guarantee of privacy provides Alaskan citizens with greater protection than the federal constitution

—this broader interpretation of our state constitution is based on the wording of Article I, Section 14 (which differs from the Fourth Amendment in that it includes the additional phrase "and other property"), and also on the fact that the citizens of Alaska have amended our constitution to include an express guarantee of privacy (Article I, Section 22).

As we have previously explained, the primary purpose of this section is to protect Alaskans'"personal privacy and dignity against unwarranted intrusions by the State

The right to privacy under the Alaska Constitution is broader and more encompassing than the right to privacy protected under the United States Constitution.

—warrantless inspection authorized by Alaska's Occupational Safety and Health Act is unreasonable search under Alaska Const. art. I, ง 14

—relaxing probable cause requirement for administrative searches of commercial premises under state workplace safety statutes and recognizing that warrant requirements would also be relaxed in context of heavily regulated activity, but declining to relax requirement because the premises searched were not engaged in heavily regulated industry

—"a search without a warrant is per se unreasonable unless it clearly falls within one of the narrowly defined exceptions to the warrant requirement

The Alaska Constitution's search and seizure provision (article I, section 14) is more protective than the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

—was in total agreement with the White opinion in the Camarra case and, had he but known, with the White opinion in the Barlow case as well.