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According to the Washington Post all federal law enforcement agencies will need to get a warrant before using a Stingray. (Actual Policy Statement).
The Justice Department unveiled a policy Thursday that will require its law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant to deploy cellphone-tracking devices in criminal investigations and inform judges when they plan to use them.
The department's new policy, announced by Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates, should increase transparency around the use of the controversial technology by the FBI and other Justice Department agencies.
... The new policy waives the warrant requirement for exigent circumstances. These include the need to protect human life "or avert serious injury," prevent the imminent destruction of evidence, the hot pursuit of a fleeing felon, or the prevention of escape by a convicted fugitive from justice.
The FBI had imposed their own internal warrant requirement back in April.
But the policy does not apply to State, and Local agencies that have been given Stingrays with instructions to keep them secret, even to the extent of dismissing charges rather than admit some evidence was gathered by questionable legal means.
So will ill gotten information now flow in reverse, from local to federal authorities? Will the Feds start practicing "Parallel Construction" using, but hiding, the information supplied by local police?
(Score: 0, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday September 04 2015, @02:56PM
If the fuzz can find a fleeing felon by tracking his cell he deserves to be caught.
tl:dr; It's bad for even experienced mental health professionals to be left alone in the same room with a psychiatric inpatient, M'Kay?
About four hours after I hypnotized a psych nurse, the hospital's gift shop figured out that I must have escaped their nuthouse because I asked them to use their scissors to cut my special day-glo yellow wristband off. Most patients of San Mateo General Hospital have white wristbands but us SPECIAL PATIENTS had day-glo yellow.
Roughly fifteen minutes after they declined my request then I cheerfully said I would just tear it off with my teeth, three huge, burly security guards damn near trampled me to death as they bolted across the lobby towards the PICU. I am dead certain my panicked leap out of their path was clearly visible on the security camera videos.
Growing concerned that I might be readmitted, I ambled aimiably off in the general direction of El Camino Real Boulevard - "The King's Road Boulevard". I actually runs all the way from San Diego to San Francisco although in Atascadero it is a wilderness area so you have to walk across a railroad bridge to continue along it from Paso Robles.
As I walked south on El Camino a patrol car drove past. Again concerned the cop was locking for me, I pulled the battery from my cell phone then tossed both of them into some bushes.
My bad: I should have transcribed my address book. Beth Shreve, please drop me a dime at (503) 688-8345.
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday September 04 2015, @03:03PM
At Alta Bates in Oakland, the dead body of the insightful psychiatrist who made that fatal mistake was found fully an hour after she disappeared.
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