CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump interviewed in this NPR story about the FBI struggling with Supreme Court's GPS ruling.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court said police had overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without getting a search warrant. It seemed like another instance in a long line of cases that test the balance between personal privacy and the needs of law enforcement.But the decision in U.S. v. Jones set off alarm bells inside the FBI, where officials are trying to figure out whether they need to change the way they do business.
Before the Supreme Court ruling in late January, the FBI had about 3,000 GPS tracking devices in the field.Government lawyers scrambled to get search warrants for weeks before the decision, working to convince judges they had probable cause to believe crimes were taking place.But after the ruling, FBI officials tell NPR, agents still had to turn off 250 devices that they couldn't turn back on.Read full story at the original publication below. Photo Credit: Scott Robinson
- Date Published:03/21/2012
- Original Publication:NPR