Daily Shaarli
June 22, 2018
Jailed for charging a phone: Under Boulder law, theft of electricity can land citizens in court - Boulder Daily Camera
Boulder police keep citing homeless people for charging their phones, but District Attorney Michael Dougherty refuses to prosecute the cases.
Opinion analysis: Court holds that police will generally need a warrant for cellphone location information - SCOTUSblog
'Finally, in a footnote, he left open the possibility that law-enforcement officials might not need a warrant to obtain cell-site location records for a shorter period of time than the seven days at issue in Carpenter’s case. But what law-enforcement officials do not have, he stressed, is “unrestricted access to a wireless carrier’s database of” cell-site location information.'