Technology,
California Courts of Appeal
Nov. 17, 2022
California Court suppresses fruits of geofence warrant
The notion that this technological tool should be banned entirely – leaving law enforcement with no tools for attempting to solve heinous crimes not otherwise solvable – appears unacceptable.
As law enforcement turns to electronic tracking data to investigate crimes whose suspects are not identifiable by traditional means, the constitutionality of mining such data by geofence reverse warrants has increasingly been the subject of extensive law review notes, treatises and the media - especially when law enforcement's virtual net gets it wrong and an innocent party ends up sitting in jail or, more ominously, the data is available to identify political subgrou...
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