{"id":64968,"date":"2026-10-08T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64968"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:28:51","slug":"the-record-oklahoma-judges-flock-ruling-shows-the-power-of-supreme-courts-digital-evidence-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64968","title":{"rendered":"The Record: Oklahoma judge\u2019s Flock ruling shows the power of Supreme Court\u2019s digital evidence decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Record: <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/oklahoma-flock-ruing-supreme-court-chatrie-decision\">Oklahoma judge\u2019s Flock ruling shows the power of Supreme Court\u2019s digital evidence decision<\/a> by Suzanne Smalley:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Judge Sara Hill ruled October 1 that an arresting officer improperly used data from Flock brand ALPRs to build a case against Melisa Kyle \u2014 a decision heavily informed by the landmark June geofencing ruling, known as Chatrie, in which a majority of justices found that police searches of historical cell phone locations provided by third-party tech companies are limited by the Fourth Amendment \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hill is correct that ALPRs can capture enough historical location information to require a warrant for database searches, according to Sidney Thaxter, who serves as a senior litigator for the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. &#8216;ALPR networks run against us all even if we have not committed a crime and allow police to retroactively track our whereabouts with the press of a few buttons,&#8217; Thaxter said via email. &#8216;This case correctly recognized that Chatrie holds that our location history is constitutionally protected and a warrant is required to track our physical movements,&#8217; he added. The similarities between cellphone location records and ALPR records &#8216;practically leap off the page.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Record: Oklahoma judge\u2019s Flock ruling shows the power of Supreme Court\u2019s digital evidence decision by Suzanne Smalley:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968","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=64968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64969,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968\/revisions\/64969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}