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🔗 Convicted North Texas robber challenges use of Flock cameras in appeal TX
🔗 Texas man seeks to have armed robbery conviction tossed over no-warrant Flock camera search TX
🔗 Texas robbery conviction challenged over Flock camera search TX
🔗 Flock Safety Lawsuit Moves to Federal Court WI
Waukesha County
Lawsuit
🔗 Lawsuit over Waukesha County Flock cameras moves to federal court WI
Waukesha County
Lawsuit
🔗 Waukesha County law enforcement respond to lawsuit over license plate reader cameras, case moves to federal court WI
Waukesha County
Lawsuit
🔗 Fifth Circuit wrestles with constitutionality of warrantless Flock searches
🔗 The Fourth Amendment Stops at Flock's Door - Joe Broadmeadow RI
Providence
🔗 Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was 'Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance' and Unconstitutional Court Ruling
More coverage (14 related entries):
🔗 The trouble with Flock cameras is the surveillance system's architecture, not just some of its users Copies at:
🔗 Bexar County's License Plate Reader Surveillance Scheme Struck Down by Federal Jury TX
Bexar County
Lawsuit
🔗 License Plate Cameras Raise Constitutional Questions—Goldwater Seeks Answers AZ
🔗 Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules Court Ruling
🔗 Flock's gunfire alerts raise a new Fourth Amendment question Audio Surveillance
Overview
🔗 Cop Turned Plymouth Councilman Shelton Warns Flock Cameras Cross a Constitutional Line NC
Plymouth
Pushback
🔗 The missing safeguard for Flock cameras: A warrant
🔗 Senator sends letter to CEO of Flock Safety, questioning constitutionality Federal Government
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🔗 Commentary: Your license plate is public, but your life shouldn't be Overview
🔗 Flock Cameras Are Illegal (Maybe) Court Ruling
Overview
Video
🔗 Flock cameras, privacy and the limits of police surveillance MN
Audio
Overview
🔗 The Supreme Court has a message for Kentucky on surveillance: Get a warrant KY
Court Ruling
Legislation
🔗 Flock surveillance spreads across the South as red-state lawmakers seek to ax '1984'-style tracking tools WV
Legislation
🔗 Flock cameras ban considered in Bucyrus as privacy concerns rise OH
Bucyrus
Legislation
🔗 Freedom Caucus members are 'thumbs down' on Flock WV
Monongalia County
Legislation
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🔗 Does Chatrie Put Flock Cameras on Constitutional Thin Ice? - WV MetroNews WV
🔗 A Supreme Court Phone Privacy Ruling Just Gutted Flock's Best Legal Defense VA
Norfolk
Court Ruling
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🔗 Newport to remove Flock cameras, end pilot program KY
Newport
Blocked
Success
More coverage:
🔗 Privacy, Fourth Amendment concerns heat up as Flock cameras spread through Tri-State Court Ruling
🔗 License plate cameras may be next target after Supreme Court reins in location tracking Court Ruling
🔗 SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News for Flock — But Won't Stop Mass Surveillance Court Ruling
🔗 Landmark Supreme Court Decision: What It Means for Mass Surveillance Court Ruling
Video
🔗 Are Flock cameras next? Supreme Court rules against police using sprawling cell phone location data Court Ruling
🔗 Are Flock cameras next? SCOTUS rules against sprawling location data OH
Cleveland
Court Ruling
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🔗 The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire Court Ruling
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🔗 SCOTUS just ruled against dragnet surveillance. Could Flock be next? OH
Cleveland
🔗 ACLU Applauds Important Supreme Court Decision Making Clear Location Data is Protected by the Constitution ACLU
🔗 Court rules that law enforcement's use of "geofence warrant" was a "search" Court Ruling
🔗 Criminal – Photos from license plate camera didn't violate Fourth Amendment VA
🔗 Super Bowl Ad Announces 4th Amendment Nightmare Video
Notes: Covers both Ring and Flock, and goes over some recent court actions.
🔗 Editorial: Recent court ruling affirms Flock camera legality … for now VA
Norfolk
🔗 Singh: Fourth Amendment questions we should all be asking WY
Cheyenne
🔗 Judge dismisses case alleging use of Flock cameras in Virginia city is unconstitutional VA
Norfolk
Lawsuit
🔗 Search Once. See Everything? Inside Flock NOVA Analysis
Scope Creep
Security Problem
🔗 Retired teacher fights SFPD's 'Orwellian' camera surveillance CA
San Francisco
Lawsuit
Pushback
🔗 The Supreme Court's Warning About Mass Surveillance (Carpenter Explained) Video
Notes: Good explainer for why "no expectation of privacy in public" is wrong.
🔗 Automated License Plate Readers: Background and Legal Issues Analysis
Notes: Good overview of legal considerations from the CRS.
🔗 Judge Rules Lawsuit Challenging Norfolk's Use of Flock Cameras Can Proceed Lawsuit
Pushback
🔗 Lawsuit Argues Warrantless Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras Is Unconstitutional Lawsuit
Pushback
🔗 ACLU lawsuit seeks warrant rule for license plate reader data WI
ACLU
Lawsuit
🔗 Norfolk judge rejects police Flock camera evidence without warrant VA
Norfolk
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🔗 Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. BPD, 2 F. 4th 330 Court Ruling
Notes: An en banc hearing by the 4th Circuit finding that prolonged aerial surveillance requires a warrant.
🔗 COMMONWEALTH vs. JASON J. McCARTHY MA
Analysis
Court Ruling
Notes: Good review of mosaic theory and concerns about aggregated use. Did not find a warrant was necessary when only four cameras were used for a limited period of time, but made clear that a large enough deployment (with the example of 1,000 cameras given) would.
🔗 Virginia Supreme Court Sees Through Police Claim That License Plate Data Isn't 'Personal' ACLU
Analysis
🔗 Carpenter v. United States Court Ruling
Notes: Establishes that cellular service location information constitutes a search specifically because the aggregate records are so intrusive. This implies that surveillance can constitute a search under the Fourth amendment when done on a large scale or to a certain level of intrusiveness, when it is (or was previously) allowable at a smaller scale.
🔗 Kyllo v. United States Court Ruling
Notes: The court ruled that the use of a thermal imaging camera to surveil inside a home without a warrant was unconstitutional. This case is often cited, including by the court, as establishing the precedent that technology cannot be used to bypass Fourth Amendment protections.
🔗 Katz v. United States Court Ruling
Notes: The Supreme Court established that a "reasonable expectation of privacy" can exist in public spaces.
🔗 Camara v. Municipal Court of the City and County of San Francisco Court Ruling
"The basic purpose of this Amendment, as recognized in countless decisions of this Court, is to safeguard the privacy and security of individuals against arbitrary invasions by governmental officials. The Fourth Amendment thus gives concrete expression to a right of the people which 'is basic to a free society.'"
Notes: This case has been cited in later cases (like Carpenter) to support applying the Fourth Amendment to warrantless surveillance.
🔗 United States v. Di Re Court Ruling
"We meet in this case, as in many, the appeal to necessity. It is said that, if such arrests and searches cannot be made, law enforcement will be more difficult and uncertain. But the forefathers, after consulting the lessons of history, designed our Constitution to place obstacles in the way of a too permeating police surveillance, which they seemed to think was a greater danger to a free people than the escape of some criminals from punishment."
Notes: This case has been cited in later cases (like Carpenter) to support applying the Fourth Amendment to warrantless surveillance.
