The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of geofence warrants, a law enforcement technique that allows police to access tech-firm databases to identify individuals near a crime scene. The court is weighing whether this technique is a useful tool for law enforcement or an invasion of privacy.
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Media Coverage · April 27, 2026
The Supreme Court is considering whether geofence warrants, which allow police to collect location data from cellphones near a crime scene, violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. The warrants were used to track a suspect in a bank robbery in Virginia. The court's decision will determine the constitutionality of this investigative tool.
newspaper Read articleBy MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene. The geofence warrant police served on Google found that Chatrie’s cellphone was among a handful of devices in the vicinity of the bank around the ti
Open original open_in_newThe Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. Essentially the question before the high court is whether that technique is ingenious, Orwellian, or both? The technique is called geofencing, and it allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government se
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The Supreme Court is considering whether geofence warrants, which allow police to collect location data from cellphones near a crime scene, violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. The warrants were used to track a suspect in a bank robbery in Virginia. The court's decision will determine the constitutionality of this investigative tool.
The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of geofence warrants, a law enforcement technique that allows police to access tech company databases to identify individuals near a crime scene. This technique involves drawing a virtual fence around a geographic area and seeking a warrant to search data for users within that area. The court's decision will determine whether this method is a useful tool for law enforcement or an overreach of government power.
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police …
The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene …
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