Episode 2: ALPR and Chatrie - Where do we go from here?

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There is a camera on a pole outside your office, and it is reading every plate that drives past. After Chatrie v. United States, does law enforcement need a warrant to search where your client's car has been? In this point-counterpoint episode, Jay Ruane argues both sides of automatic license plate readers as hard as he can, then tells you where the law actually stands. You get five arguments that a warrantless ALPR network is unconstitutional and five that it is lawful , built on Carpenter, Jones, Knotts, and New York v. Class, plus the ALPR-specific rulings that matter right now: the Norfolk suppression in Bell v. Commonwealth, its reversal by the Virginia Court of Appeals in Commonwealth…