Geofence warrants have proven to be an effective tool to help prosecutors and police make their case, often when no other evidence leads to a suspect. They are the latest intersection between rapidly advancing geospatial technology and law enforcement. In some jurisdictions prosecutors petition judges to authorize warrants which scrutinize one or more international locational databases, containing location records of every citizen in the US with a smartphone. Many legal scholars say it's the details of how those data are obtained from the warrant, selected, processed, and then presented in court which may, or may not, offend long-established Constitutional protections found under the 4th and 5th Amendments.
Focus points include:
• Fourth Amendment considerations.
• Understanding the geography, search process, and technology used in a geofence warrant.
• Finding geofence warrant resources.
Speaker: Christopher W. Dunn, GeoVelo, LLC, Columbia
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