Czynności przeszukania w pomieszczeniach kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych. Zatrzymanie dokumentów i innych rzeczy
Search activities in the rooms of churches and religious organisations. Retention of documents and other items

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the subject of searches in rooms belonging to churches and religious organizations and the detention of documents and other things belonging to these entities. By analysing the applicable legal regulations, the publication attempts to answer the question whether the normative solutions existing in the Polish legal order allow for the possibility of conducting searches in religious buildings and other premises belonging to churches and religious organizations, and whether any writings and documents held by confessional entities disclosed in the course of these activities are subject to any protection? Are churches and religious organisations obliged, at the request of the services, to issue any person who can provide evidence of the things which they indicate, and are the searches themselves regulated unambiguously and with full respect for the rights of the individual guaranteed by the Polish Constitution?The article presents the controversial and objectionable issues and proposes solutions de lege ferenda.

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