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Police need warrant to use global positioning system.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03 		Format: Online - approximately 759 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Police need warrant to use global positioning system.(Washington)

Article Excerpt
Installing a global positioning system (GPS) device on a suspect's vehicle constitutes search and seizure and therefore requires a warrant, the Washington Supreme Court ruled recently in a case of first impression. (Washington v. Jackson, 76 P.3d 217 (Wash. 2003).) The court also held that the warrant issued in the case was valid.

"We are very pleased with the decision," said Doug Klunder, director of the ACLU of Washington's Privacy Project, which filed an amicus brief in the case. "The technology at issue here provides an incredible amount of information about a person's life, and we believe that being able to go back and download the information two weeks later--which is...

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