(Video)City Government demands all keys to properties belonging to Cedar Falls residents.

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WorldNetDaily reports:

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The government of a Midwest college town is now requiring the city's businesses and apartment buildings to post their keys outside, so authorities can enter the properties "in case of emergency."

According to the Cedar Falls City Council, the plan to require property owners to post keys in designated lockboxes – that city officials can open with a master key – is a justified way to allow the fire department and other authorities access without breaking down doors, especially in cases of false alarms.

To many Cedar Falls citizens, however, giving the city keys to their businesses and homes is a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment's private property rights and a plan fraught with potential for abuse.

"What gives you guys the right?" asked an unidentified citizen at a May 23 public hearing on the plan. "This opens a big can of worms into the intrusion of our private property and our rights."

If figures a college town would try this, after all, many people in college towns don't believe in freedom and property rights.