Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police

ChicagoTribune.com ^ | May 7, 2009 | RYAN J. FOLEY

[mtrott]

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?

[unixfox]

It’s the government employees we need to be tracking.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’m no lawyer but I’d wager that this would be struck down by the Federal courts.

[tiger-one]

If u can find it

[Renderofveils]

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.

[rellimpank]

—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”——

[SteamShovel]

police can mount GPS on cars to track people without violating their constitutional rights -- even if the drivers aren't suspects.

This is disturbing.....

[Lets Roll NOW]

Can private citizens put GPS on patol cars so they know where the speed traps are? Only seems fair.

[Steely Tom]

EZPass records can be obtained by subpoena and used in court.

Article.

[pompelmous]

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.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Hmm. If the police can do this, even though you’re not a suspect, can your insurance company also do it?

[Clint Williams]

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.

[M-cubed]

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

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

But wiretapping terrorists is an outrage.

[freebilly]

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....

[LachlanMinnesota]

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?

[jiggyboy]

Put it on a police car’s rear bumper then call the bomb squad.

[org.whodat]

Yes!!!

[DaveArk]

At the least is tresspassing onto private property.

[org.whodat]

Not even close to the same thing!!!