{"id":55658,"date":"2023-08-23T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55658"},"modified":"2023-08-23T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:39:33","slug":"bloomberg-law-church-sues-california-county-over-alleged-covid-19-geofencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55658","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Law: Church Sues California County Over Alleged Covid-19 Geofencing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bloomberg Law: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/church-sues-california-county-over-alleged-covid-19-geofencing\">Church Sues California County Over Alleged Covid-19 Geofencing<\/a> by Jorja Siemons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A Christian church and its pastor accused a California county of violating its congregants\u2019 privacy and constitutional rights by illegally using a geofencing tool to track residents on church premises during the Covid-19 pandemic\u2019s shelter-in-place order.<\/p><p>The operation had no boundaries, they alleged, enabling the county to track churchgoers in the prayer room and bathroom.<\/p><p>Lead pastor Mike McClure and Calvary Chapel San Jose filed a complaint against Santa Clara County and data company SafeGraph Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. They alleged that the government targeted the church with a surveillance operation over the course of a year that tracked unaware individuals by gathering their sensitive cell phone location data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If injunctive relief only, they might prevail. If there are damages in the complaint, they lose on qualified immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Law: Church Sues California County Over Alleged Covid-19 Geofencing by Jorja Siemons:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geofence","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55658","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=55658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55659,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55658\/revisions\/55659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}