{"id":19993,"date":"2015-12-17T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19993"},"modified":"2015-12-17T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:58:18","slug":"tx-no-sw-needed-for-historical-scli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19993","title":{"rendered":"TX: No SW needed for historical SCLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDid the State&#8217;s warrantless acquisition of four days worth of historical cell-site-location information\u2014recorded by Jon Thomas Ford&#8217;s cell-phone service provider\u2014violate the Fourth Amendment? No. We agree with the San Antonio Court of Appeals that, because a third-party, AT&#038;T, gathered and maintained the information as business records of the service provided to Ford&#8217;s phone, Ford did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the data. The State did not violate Ford&#8217;s Fourth Amendment rights when it obtained that information by way of a court order under Article 18.21 \u00a7 5(a) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure\u2014an order available on a showing short of probable cause. We will affirm.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=1aabe1dc-deaf-4095-a0fa-a2a353f41c8f&#038;coa=coscca&#038;DT=OPINION&#038;MediaID=6fff0200-81a4-4b9c-8373-d29978571fb1\">Ford v. State<\/a>, 2015 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1412 (Dec. 16, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDid the State&#8217;s warrantless acquisition of four days worth of historical cell-site-location information\u2014recorded by Jon Thomas Ford&#8217;s cell-phone service provider\u2014violate the Fourth Amendment? No. We agree with the San Antonio Court of Appeals that, because a third-party, AT&#038;T, gathered and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-site-location-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19994,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions\/19994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}