Two motorists recently won Fourth Amendment decisions. Both cases will likely be appealed, and will have major privacy rights implications for how and where we drive our vehicles. ALPRs in Florida Raul Mas Canosa was mad and decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. The city where he lives, Coral Gables, Florida, tracked his […]
38 Blog Posts From the FOURTH AMENDMENT Tag
A Car’s Black Box and a City’s ALPR Program Put to the Test in two Different Courts: NMA E-Newsletter #566
November 18, 2019
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ACLU, ALPR, BLACK BOX, EDR, EVENT DATA RECORDER, FOURTH AMENDMENT, ILLEGAL SEARCH, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, PRIVACY
Your Home is Your Castle . . . Until It Isn’t: NMA Newsletter #565
November 11, 2019
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Car Care, FOURTH AMENDMENT, NMA, PRIVACY, Speed Limits, VISION ZERO
By Gary Biller, NMA President On a recent trip to Sacramento to walk the halls of the state capitol with Jay Beeber and engage legislative staffers on why an arbitrary lowering of speed limits in the name of Vision Zero is a colossally bad idea, I had the opportunity to have a nice dinner with […]
War on Cars Watch for October 16, 2019
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October 16, 2019
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Bicycle, Car Care, CELL PHONE, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Complete Streets, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Electric Vehicle, FOURTH AMENDMENT, Fuel, Gas Tax, Mass Transit, NHTSA, NMA, PEDESTRIAN, PRIVACY, racial profiling, RENTAL CAR, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Diets, Roadblocks, SAFETY, SEAT BELT, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, Toll Roads, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Congestion, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
Editor’s Note: This War on Cars Watch covers two weeks’ worth of headlines from October 2-16, 2019. This is due to the editor’s participation in the Keep LA Moving Conference on October 5th. The War on Cars Watch is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. The War on Cars Watch focuses on road diets, […]
Motorists in Court—Latest Court Case Updates from Around the Country: NMA E-Newsletter #544
June 17, 2019
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BLOOD WITHDRAWAL, DUI/DWI, FOURTH AMENDMENT, LEGISLATION, Policing for Profit, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
Under the Influence of the Justice System – A Father’s Story
May 31, 2019
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BAC, Civil Forfeiture, Driver's License, DUI, Fifth Amendment, FOURTH AMENDMENT, INSURANCE, Policing for Profit
By an NMA Member This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #519 on December 23, 2019 This is a story about my twenty-year-old son. To some readers this may be an article that smacks of stupidity and privilege. It may be that both are true but the real point is how hopelessly out […]
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