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Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules

The first post-Chatrie ruling on the question.

Orin S. Kerr | 9.16.2026 7:50 PM

For reasons explained in my draft article, The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie, there is good reason to believe that the Supreme Court's June ruling in Chatrie v. United States will trigger a rethinking of how the Fourth Amendment applies to automated license plate reader systems such as those provided by Flock Safety.  There was an oral argument in the Eleventh Circuit on this question on July 29 that you can listen to here, but there has been no ruling yet on that from the Eleventh Circuit.  Last week, however, the United States District Court for the........

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