{"id":63812,"date":"2026-04-10T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63812"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:25:27","slug":"va-no-rep-in-alpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63812","title":{"rendered":"VA: No REP in ALPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flock ALPR systems can\u2019t be compared to Carpenter\u2019s \u201cnear perfect surveillance.\u201d Motion to suppress properly denied. There\u2019s no reasonable expectation of privacy of public movement on the roads. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacourts.gov\/static\/opinions\/opncavwp\/1912241.pdf\">Robinson v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 199 (Apr. 7, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ohio, at least, a drug dog can sniff any car during any traffic stop as long as it doesn\u2019t prolong it at all. Here, defendant was stopped at a convenience store, and he refused commands to stay with the car and walked into the stop accusing the police of stopping him because he was black. He prolonged the stop. State v. Craft, 2026-Ohio-1205 (7th Dist. Apr. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant consented to this search after being told he could refuse or revoke consent. It didn\u2019t come right away, and it included negotiating over whether he could watch. [Long discussion of the facts showing voluntariness and his good treatment on bodycam.] United States v. Day, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74048 (D.S.D. Apr. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flock ALPR systems can\u2019t be compared to Carpenter\u2019s \u201cnear perfect surveillance.\u201d Motion to suppress properly denied. There\u2019s no reasonable expectation of privacy of public movement on the roads. Robinson v. Commonwealth, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 199 (Apr. 7, 2026). In &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63812\">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":[141,24,27,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers","category-consent","category-dog-sniff","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63812","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=63812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63813,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63812\/revisions\/63813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}