A ruling that plate reader searches trigger the Fourth Amendment could hamper investigations into violent crimes and missing people, and could “call into question countless criminal convictions” built partly on that data. – Attorney Samuel C. Hall Jr.
The Waukesha County communities sued over their use of Flock license plate cameras went on offense Wednesday, moving the case to federal court and asking a judge to throw it out.
Crivello, Nichols & Hall, the Milwaukee law firm representing every municipality named in the suit, removed the case from Waukesha County Circuit Court on Oct. 7, arguing it belongs in federal court because it rests on the Fourth Amendment. The firm also filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in its entirety and asked the court to pause everything until a federal appeals court rules on a nearly identical challenge out of Illinois…