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Use of K9s as pretext for plausible cause is well known issue, that said, without knowing specifics of the situation, impossible to comment on legal merit of them submitting the cost of search warrant for debt collections.

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> submitting the cost of search warrant for debt collections

I'm not sure how that would even work.

The way it works is they have a private party perform part of the search, then have that party bill it to you.

Annoying, for sure, but short of them having a your signature acknowledging responsibility for the cost, it should be straightforward to shut down the debt collector's efforts.

Until that debt gets sold to a collector that couldn't give two shits about what is legal

Depends on context, jurisdiction, etc — for example, given topic is US law enforcement, here’s one example of costs of investigation assigned for collection based on outcome of a case:

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/criminal-defense/when-do-...

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