{
  "version": "3.33",
  "compiled": "2026-10-09",
  "site": "https://stateofwatch.com",
  "claim": {
    "id": "schmidt-amici",
    "section": 5,
    "title": "Who filed briefs in the Schmidt appeal",
    "date": "Apr 20 and Jun 18, 2026",
    "sort": "2026-06-18",
    "status": "verified",
    "checked": "3.19",
    "note": "Confirmed against the Fourth Circuit docket (CourtListener 72357963). Cato, the U.S., and the Florida chamber brief resolved in v3.13 and v3.19. The Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability brief (Doc. 27) was missing until Sept 28, 2026.",
    "category": "court",
    "case": "schmidt",
    "body": "For Plaintiffs-Appellants, filed April 20, 2026: ACLU, ACLU of Virginia, and EFF jointly; the New Civil Liberties Alliance; EPIC; the Innocence Project and The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU School of Law jointly; The Policing Project at NYU School of Law; the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability; and the Cato Institute.\n\nFor the City, filed June 18, 2026: a sixteen-state brief (South Carolina lead, joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and DC); the Commonwealth of Virginia; Human Trafficking Training Center LLC, Operation Light Shine, and Safe House Project jointly; Major Cities Chiefs Association, Major County Sheriffs of America, the North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police, North Carolina Sheriffs' Association, and Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police and Foundation jointly; the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic Outreach Taskforce, and Multicultural Business Alliance; and the United States (\"Brief of the United States as Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendants-Appellees\").\n\nThe plaintiffs-side brief adds record figures: over 1 million vehicle detections in March 2026 alone with a sub-1% hotlist match rate, and a police audit failure (logs undownloaded until Feb. 2025, unreviewed until May 2025, by which point the system had been queried 230,000+ times).",
    "quotes": [],
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "Fourth Circuit docket, No. 26-1227 (CourtListener 72357963)",
        "primary": true,
        "docket": "26-1227"
      },
      {
        "label": "Sixteen-state amicus brief",
        "primary": true,
        "doc": "schmidt-states-amicus"
      },
      {
        "label": "EFF/ACLU/ACLU of Virginia amicus brief",
        "primary": true
      },
      {
        "label": "footnote4a.org",
        "url": "https://footnote4a.org/news/schmidt-amici"
      }
    ],
    "places": [
      "norfolk-va"
    ],
    "url": "https://stateofwatch.com/claims/schmidt-amici"
  }
}