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Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police
ChicagoTribune.com ^ | May 7, 2009 | RYAN J. FOLEY

Posted on 05/10/2009 7:57:22 AM PDT by mtrott

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So, if the police are free to attach a GPS device to my car without my permission and without a warrant, am I free to remove it from my property and throw it down a storm drain?
1 posted on 05/10/2009 7:57:22 AM PDT by mtrott
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It’s the government employees we need to be tracking.


2 posted on 05/10/2009 8:00:35 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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I’m no lawyer but I’d wager that this would be struck down by the Federal courts.


3 posted on 05/10/2009 8:00:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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If u can find it


4 posted on 05/10/2009 8:01:49 AM PDT by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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I hear rare earth magnets really enhance the functionality of these GPS devices. You may want to help out by placing a few around the casing of the device.


5 posted on 05/10/2009 8:02:23 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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—not if the “Denver Boot” precedent holds—that being a case where a chap with a welding truck which had been “booted” cut it off with his handy torch and was prosecuted for something of the sort of “ destruction of public property”——


6 posted on 05/10/2009 8:02:47 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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police can mount GPS on cars to track people without violating their constitutional rights -- even if the drivers aren't suspects.

This is disturbing.....

7 posted on 05/10/2009 8:03:12 AM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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Can private citizens put GPS on patol cars so they know where the speed traps are? Only seems fair.


8 posted on 05/10/2009 8:03:28 AM PDT by Lets Roll NOW
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EZPass records can be obtained by subpoena and used in court.

Article.

9 posted on 05/10/2009 8:03:57 AM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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Rather than wasting a great device by throwing it down a storm drain take it out to the truck stop and send it on a trip like, a message in a bottle.


10 posted on 05/10/2009 8:04:25 AM PDT by pompelmous (Unintended consequences)
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Hmm. If the police can do this, even though you’re not a suspect, can your insurance company also do it?


11 posted on 05/10/2009 8:05:43 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (It's all resistance...and it's all good.)
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Many states are now tracking registered sex offenders with GPS "bracelets" and this is done arbitrarily, ex post facto, and without due process of law. On that precedent, this practice will stand. Strike it down, and the other will go.

It's your choice: continue and advance the police state or not? Just remember, you'll feel safer in the police state.

America -- a great idea, didn't last.

12 posted on 05/10/2009 8:06:52 AM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters | America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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Officers do not need to get warrants beforehand because GPS tracking does not involve a search or a seizure, <<

Sounds to me, like a "search" of where you've been....Plus a "seizure" of your right to privacy

13 posted on 05/10/2009 8:07:26 AM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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But wiretapping terrorists is an outrage.


14 posted on 05/10/2009 8:07:28 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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Wiretaps don’t involve search and seizure either, but warrants are necessary. Look for this to be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court....


15 posted on 05/10/2009 8:07:40 AM PDT by freebilly
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But the case was concerning someone suspected of stalking, so how can the case be precedent for a non-suspect? It seems to me that this is dicta and that the only clear ruling was that the policy can use it for cases in which a complaint and underlying report of criminal activity are already occurring.

I still don’t like the fact that they can attach something to my car.

Will they be able to attach something to my clothing next?


16 posted on 05/10/2009 8:07:41 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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Put it on a police car’s rear bumper then call the bomb squad.


17 posted on 05/10/2009 8:07:54 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Yes!!!


18 posted on 05/10/2009 8:08:28 AM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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At the least is tresspassing onto private property.


19 posted on 05/10/2009 8:09:10 AM PDT by DaveArk
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Not even close to the same thing!!!


20 posted on 05/10/2009 8:09:35 AM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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