{"id":6858,"date":"2012-03-21T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:33:53","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6858","title":{"rendered":"NPR: &#8220;FBI Still Struggling With Supreme Court&#8217;s GPS Ruling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/03\/21\/149011887\/fbi-still-struggling-with-supreme-courts-gps-ruling\">FBI Still Struggling With Supreme Court&#8217;s GPS Ruling<\/a> by Carrie Johnson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, the Supreme Court said police had overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without getting a search warrant. It seemed like another instance in a long line of cases that test the balance between personal privacy and the needs of law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>But the decision in U.S. v. Jones set off alarm bells inside the FBI, where officials are trying to figure out whether they need to change the way they do business.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Supreme Court ruling in late January, the FBI had about 3,000 GPS tracking devices in the field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also BLT: <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltimes.typepad.com\/blt\/2012\/03\/prosecutors-gear-up-for-gps-drug-case-sans-tracking-data-.html\">Prosecutors Gear Up For GPS Drug Case, Sans Tracking Data<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark warrantless surveillance case back in Washington federal district court, prosecutors said they are gearing up for a legal fight over the availability of certain pieces of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The high court in January ruled for a Washington nightclub owner named Antoine Jones. Prosecutors have accused him of running a cocaine trafficking ring in the Washington metropolitan area.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6858\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}