Digital Evidence
Oklahoma judge’s Flock ruling shows the power of Supreme Court’s digital evidence decision
Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome
The Forensic Evidence Table
Series of articles about the intersections of forensic science, surveillance technology, AI, and the criminal legal system with the goal of developing clearer ways of seeing the systems underneath them: what gets collected, how evidence is transformed, what gets preserved, where scientific and technical limits lie, and what happens to constitutional rights when those systems …
Flock Outlines New Limits on License-Plate Searches in Letter to US Senate
Iowa athletes busted for betting take illegal search claims to Eighth Circuit
Fourth Circuit calls real-time cellphone tracking a search
Flock’s Gunfire Alerts Raise a New Fourth Amendment Question
Webinar: Primer – Cell Phone Location Evidence in Call Detail Records
Live webinar presented by Anthony Monaghan, JD and Eric GrabskiDec. 3, 2026, 12:30pm90 min of CLE credit anticipated Cell phone location evidence is frequently used to place a defendant at or near a particular location, so understanding what those records actually establish is critical to effectively challenging the evidence. The session will explain how law …
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Chatrie and What Happens Next
LOCATION: LIVE Webinar via ZoomDATE: Thursday, September 10, 2026COST: FREE, Registration RequiredTIME: 2:00 pm ETCLE CREDIT: not available The Supreme Court held in Chatrie that the government’s use of a “geofence warrant” to obtain Google location history was a Fourth Amendment Search, and that people have a privacy interest in their cell phone location history–even when it’s stored by a third …
ChatGPT chats are being swept into civil and criminal court cases
AI Prompts Are Discoverable as Expert’s Methodology
What the Flock? How ALPR Surveillance Works, How It’s Abused, and How to Challenge It
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Time: 3:00–4:30 p.m. ET Location: Online | No CLE credit Offered at no cost by NACDL to their members and non-members Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are tracking vehicles across the country—collecting location data, creating detailed records of people’s movements, and increasingly becoming part of criminal investigations. But how does …
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