Flock and license plate readersJun 18, 2026
The sixteen-state brief leans on a two-camera, one-house case
United States v. Gregory, 128 F.4th 1228 (11th Cir. 2025), concerns two warrantless pole cameras on one co-defendant's home for about 10 months. The Eleventh Circuit found no Fourth Amendment violation. The sixteen-state brief quotes the line below as its opening, and Judge Davis's opinion relies on it too. Judge Jordan's partial concurrence cautioned against reading the public-view doctrine as blanket immunity for pole cameras "regardless of the length of time they record," which the brief also quotes at p. 11.
How we know: Confirmed twice (v3.9 against Gregory itself, v3.10 against the brief). A full sentence-by-sentence fairness check of the brief was not done.
“[n]othing in the Constitution forbids the government from using technology to conduct lawful investigations more efficiently”
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Tracked case: Schmidt v. Norfolk
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