In United States v. Kyle, decided 1 October 2026, a federal judge in Oklahoma held that a warrantless lookup of roughly a month of Flock location history was an unconstitutional search. Other courts, including the Fifth Circuit, have gone the other way, and the ruling binds no one outside its district.
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Most courts that have ruled have held that plate-reader searches are not Fourth Amendment searches. The Kyle ruling is one district-court exception and does not ban the cameras.
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