{"id":40777,"date":"2019-11-22T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40777"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:01:23","slug":"wapo-police-hid-a-tracking-device-on-a-suspects-car-then-charged-him-with-theft-for-removing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40777","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Police hid a tracking device on a suspect\u2019s car \u2014 then charged him with theft for removing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/11\/21\/police-hid-tracking-device-suspects-car-then-charged-him-with-theft-removing-it\/\">Police hid a tracking device on a suspect\u2019s car \u2014 then charged him with theft for removing it<\/a> by Brittany Shammas (&#8220;For about a week in summer 2018, Indiana authorities monitored a suspected drug dealer\u2019s movements using a GPS tracking device they had surreptitiously placed on his Ford Expedition. One night, the tracker went dark. A Warrick County sheriff\u2019s deputy went to investigate and discovered that the device was gone. In a move that appeared to perplex Indiana Supreme Court justices reviewing the case, the alleged dealer \u2014 a Boonville, Ind., man named Derek Heuring \u2014 was charged with theft for taking it off. The case raises questions about both private and government surveillance, potentially having ramifications beyond Heuring and his legal situation.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20200225\/11463843983\/state-court-says-it-isnt-theft-to-remove-unmarked-law-enforcement-tracking-device-your-car.shtml\">State Court Says It Isn&#8217;t Theft To Remove An Unmarked Law Enforcement Tracking Device From Your Car<\/a> by Tim Cushing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Police hid a tracking device on a suspect\u2019s car \u2014 then charged him with theft for removing it by Brittany Shammas (&#8220;For about a week in summer 2018, Indiana authorities monitored a suspected drug dealer\u2019s movements using a GPS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40777\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40777","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=40777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42763,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40777\/revisions\/42763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}