By Kristen D Swilley, WMAZ
It’s a device police say keeps you safe when they need to find a suspect in a crime, but some are raising questions about the constitutionality of certain kinds of tracking systems.
Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that placing a GPS tracker on you, your car or any of your belongings counts as a search and is protected by the Fourth Amendment.
That means police can use it only with probable cause. Chief Wesley Cannon says that’s how the StarChase system the department got last year works.
“I don’t see any difference in the officers chasing someone and following and tracking them with their eyes then using a piece of technology to do so,” he said.
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