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Massachusetts Supreme Court Tackles Law Enforcement Use Of Cell Tower Dumps

29 December 2021



Years after they've become a go-to tool for law enforcement to work their way backwards to suspects, the Massachusetts Supreme Court is wrestling with the issue of cell tower dumps. Cell tower dumps can often be had with only a subpoena. They give investigators access to all cell phones that were in the area of the tower at certain times. Investigators peruse these lists of numbers to try to find numbers that might be linked to someone who committed a crime. The problem is investigators don't know who that "someone" is, so they, however briefly, turn everyone in the area ...



 

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Top Court In Massachusetts Says Cops Unconstitutionally Obtained Cell Tower Dumps In Homicide Case

4 April 2022



The courts in Massachusetts continue to set the standard for privacy protections. They have handed down several rulings that have expanded residents’ reasonable expectations beyond the baseline set by the Fourth Amendment and federal court rulings. The courts in the state erected a warrant requirement for cell site location data four years ahead of the Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision. The state’s top court has also created a warrant requirement for long-term video surveillance of the outside of someone’s home, as well as one for law enforcement agencies’ searches of their own body camera footage. So, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the ...



 
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