Monday, January 23, 2012

Supreme Court: Police need warrant to use GPS tracking on cars

The justices all agreed that the government needs a search warrant from a judge before it seeks to track a suspect by secretly installing a device on his car. - LA Times

The Supreme Court on Monday put the brakes on the government’s use of high-tech monitoring devices to track motorists, ruling unanimously that police and the FBI violated the 4th Amendment by attaching a GPS device to a Jeep owned by a drug suspect.

Document: Read the full Supreme Court opinion