{"id":43959,"date":"2020-06-03T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T12:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43959"},"modified":"2020-06-03T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T12:56:10","slug":"nj-tier-iii-gps-sex-offender-monitoring-valid-under-special-needs-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43959","title":{"rendered":"NJ: Tier III GPS sex offender monitoring valid under special needs exception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GPS monitoring of Tier III sex offenders is a search, and it is shown to be valid under the special needs exception. \u201cAs to the governmental interest, the Court notes that the State&#8217;s interest in deterring and preventing sexual offenses is compelling and well recognized but stresses that the strength of that interest still must be evaluated in context. [\u00b6] On balance, H.R.&#8217;s diminished privacy interests as a Tier III Megan&#8217;s Law sex offender on PSL are outweighed by the State&#8217;s interest in deterring and rehabilitating him as a high-risk sex offender.\u201d [Syllabus] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njcourts.gov\/attorneys\/assets\/opinions\/supreme\/a_90_18.pdf?c=SYR\">H.R. v. N.J. State Parole Bd.<\/a>, 2020 N.J. LEXIS 664 (June 1, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s pacing defendant\u2019s car to determine whether he was speeding was reasonable suspicion for his stop. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/frederic_lamont_byrd_cca_opinion.pdf\">State v. Byrd<\/a>, 2020 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 383 (June 2, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPS monitoring of Tier III sex offenders is a search, and it is shown to be valid under the special needs exception. \u201cAs to the governmental interest, the Court notes that the State&#8217;s interest in deterring and preventing sexual offenses &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43959\">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":[35,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-special-needs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43961,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959\/revisions\/43961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}