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A divided federal appeals court ruled on June 24 that an aerial surveillance program used as a crime-fighting tool by the Baltimore Police Department was unconstitutional.
In its ruling, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the police must stop using any data obtained through the now-defunct program. The appeals court said the use of a plane equipped with wide-angle high-tech cameras to monitor the city amounted to a warrantless search and violated the Fourth Amendment.
“The AIR [Aerial Investigation Research] program records the movements of a city. With analysis, it can reveal where individuals come and go over an extended period. Because the AIR program enables police to deduce from the whole of individuals’ movements, we hold that accessing its data is a search, and its warrantless operation violates the Fourth Amendment,” Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote for the majority in the tight 8-7 ruling.
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