Suzanne Smalley reports:
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that a lawsuit challenging a Virginia city’s use of automatic license plate readers can move forward.
… In October, the Institute for Justice — a nonprofit public interest law firm — filed a lawsuit on behalf of two area residents arguing the cameras amount to “warrantless surveillance of their every move,” because anyone with access to the Flock database can track where a vehicle has travelled.
… In his ruling, Virginia federal judge Mark Davis said the plaintiffs “sufficiently alleged” the cameras violate their Fourth Amendment rights protecting against unreasonable search and seizures by the government, citing a 2018 Supreme Court case that held that a warrant is needed to use mobile device location data to monitor individuals’ movements.
Read more at The Record.
See also the press release from the Institute for Justice (h/t, Joe Cadillic)