{"id":60135,"date":"2025-02-14T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60135"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:34:56","slug":"mo-gps-monitoring-of-a-sex-offender-after-release-was-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60135","title":{"rendered":"MO: GPS monitoring of a sex offender after release was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

F.S.’s expectation of privacy is diminished as a convicted felon and registered sex offender, and the GPS monitoring’s intrusion on her privacy is slight. The state has a legitimate interest in protecting children and other potential victims from sex crimes. GPS monitoring furthers this interest by deterring sex offender recidivism. She provided no particularized evidence of her individual circumstances suggesting she poses a low risk of reoffending or that the monitoring is unreasonable as applied to her. F.S. v. Mo. Dep’t of Corr.<\/a>, 2025 Mo. LEXIS 23 (Feb. 11, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis court has held that the exclusionary rule, which generally prohibits the use of evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, does not apply to revocation proceedings in the absence of police harassment. \u2026 Brooks fails to show that the district court clearly erred in finding there was no such harassment in this case. See id.\u201d United States v. Brooks, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 2882 (5th Cir. Feb. 7, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defendant\u2019s backpack search issue was untimely and isn\u2019t considered on appeal. United States v. Romero, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 3086 (10th Cir. Feb. 11, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A traffic offense was used for this stop, but the officer had plenty of information that defendant was a felon in possession that he could act on to search for a gun. Turner v. State, 2025 Miss. App. LEXIS 54 (Feb. 11, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F.S.’s expectation of privacy is diminished as a convicted felon and registered sex offender, and the GPS monitoring’s intrusion on her privacy is slight. The state has a legitimate interest in protecting children and other potential victims from sex crimes. … Continue reading →<\/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":[14,17,35,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule","category-gps-tracking-data","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60135","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=60135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60136,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60135\/revisions\/60136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}