Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license plate readers

Re:Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license ... by erikpukinskis on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @12:56PM (#19564983)

I don't understand, it sounds like you are contradicting yourself. First you say courts rubber stamp warrants, then you say they they distinguish between fishing expeditions and targeted investigations. Which is it?

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Re:Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license ... by vkou on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:17PM (#19565168)

Any judge worth their salt will rubber-stamp a search warrant for Bob Joe, with a justification of: "Officer Harry had a 'hunch' that Bob Joe may be a criminal of some kind."

Most judges will not approve a search warrant for an entire city block, with a justification of: "Officer Harry had a 'hunch' that a criminal may live somewhere there, or that criminal activity of some kind may be taking place in this area."

As long as warrants are targeted, they tend to be rubber-stamped. The purpose of the warrant process is to make sure that law enforcement is targeted.

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Re:Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license ... by Rooster61 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:42PM (#19566025)

> Any judge worth their salt will rubber-stamp a search warrant for Bob Joe, with a justification of: "Officer Harry had a 'hunch' that Bob Joe may be a criminal of some kind."

Is this based off of personal experience? I do have some experience with dealing with judges, and that has not been my observation, at least not as a hard and fast rule.

> The purpose of the warrant process is to make sure that law enforcement is targeted.

Partially, but the other side of it is that it's to make sure that the search activity is, well, warranted.

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