The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that tracking sex offenders for indefinite time periods via GPS ankle monitors amounts to an unreasonable search and is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
From WSPA.COM :
“A 2015 United States Supreme Court ruling in Grady v. North Carolina considered the question of whether or not wearing a GPS monitor constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
“The court unanimously held that when the government puts a satellite-based monitoring ankle on a citizen, that’s a search,” NARSOL spokesperson Robin Vanderwall said. “Since then it’s been a question of at what point is that search unreasonable, because that’s the touchstone of the Fourth Amendment, is reasonableness.”
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The Griffin v. North Carolina decision filed Tuesday by the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that law enforcement can’t force offenders to wear tracking devices for decades.”
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