Geofence warrants are the new tool that local law enforcement uses to soak up data for further criminal investigations.

Geofence warrants allow police agencies to gather data on every person in a specified area for a certain period of time. Traditional warrants, by contrast, are narrowly tailored to gather information on a specified person.

And in that geofence area, they can suck up data from any member of the public and track such things as who's going to a known drug house. This could cause such mislabeling problems as what if you're going to a friend's house that happens to live next to a drug house.

The question is that this is going to possibly be one of the upcoming constitutional arguments coming down the pipeline. My listener wants my opinion on cops using geofencing and do I believe it's constitutional.

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Stephen E. Palmer, Esq. has been practicing criminal defense almost exclusively since 1995. He has represented people in federal, state, and local courts in Ohio and elsewhere.

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