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Chicago, Illinois: ShotSpotter Asks Court To Hold It In Contempt Rather Than Turn Over Information To Defense Lawyer

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ShotSpotter Asks Court To Hold It In Contempt Rather Than Turn Over Information To Defense Lawyer

1 August 2022



ShotSpotter — the gunshot analytic company with the rather sketchy reputation — is, once again, endearing itself to the public by doing things that seem… well… sketchy. On Friday, an attorney representing ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detection technology company, made the unusual request that a judge in a criminal case hold the company in contempt of court to prevent ShotSpotter from being compelled to release documents about how it assesses gunshot alerts. The request is unusual in the sense that it doesn’t happen often. (It’s not unusual in terms of the judicial process. ShotSpotter has no way to directly challenge this discovery ...



 
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