We’re Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches

EFF and the ACLU have filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit in United States v. Sturdivant, asking the appeals court to require a warrant for searches of automated licence plate reader data. The brief argues that the vast, interconnected network of licence plate readers constantly tracking drivers amounts to a search under the Fourth Amendment; in the case, police used open-ended searches of Flock and ELSAG databases to identify a suspect’s car.