{"id":63625,"date":"2026-03-18T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63625"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:29:13","slug":"ca5-no-rep-against-license-plate-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63625","title":{"rendered":"CA5: No REP against license plate readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>License plate readers violate no reasonable expectation of privacy. Also, the stop was supported by reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/25\/25-60163-CR0.pdf\">United States v. Porter<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 7888 (5th Cir. Mar. 17, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The informant\u2019s information was sufficient to show probable cause for the warrant. Even if it didn\u2019t, it was still enough for the good faith exception to apply. United States v. Webb, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55701 (S.D. Ill. Mar. 17, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers were in a high crime area where they\u2019d previously made many drug arrests. They encountered defendant and spoke to him, and his words and nervousness piqued their interest. On the bodycam videos, he\u2019s not seized until reasonable suspicion developed. Commonwealth v. Robinson, 2026 PA Super 49 (Mar. 17, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search incident of defendant\u2019s partially open backpack was reasonable after he was arrested for fleeing on a motorcycle and had a gun in his waist. United States v. Rocklage-Dompierre, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55131 (E.D. Mo. Mar. 17, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>License plate readers violate no reasonable expectation of privacy. Also, the stop was supported by reasonable suspicion. United States v. Porter, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 7888 (5th Cir. Mar. 17, 2026). The informant\u2019s information was sufficient to show probable cause &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63625\">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":[141,11,44,26,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers","category-good-faith-exception","category-informant-hearsay","category-search-incident","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63625","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=63625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63626,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63625\/revisions\/63626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}