NCLA Asks Fourth Circuit to Stop Norfolk's Unlawful Searches Via License Plate Tracking

The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus brief in Schmidt v. City of Norfolk at the Fourth Circuit, arguing the district court misread Carpenter v. United States when it upheld Norfolk's warrantless Flock ALPR system. NCLA contends the city's indiscriminate collection of time- and date-stamped data on every driver enables reconstruction of private life patterns in violation of the Fourth Amendment.