Maybe EPD could train Detroit police on the importance and legality of getting warrants

If you read my coverage on the Seng Yang case this week, the third post details how at every step, Eureka Police Department obtained a separate search warrant to obtain phones and access information.

In a 5-4 decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement need warrants to gather phone location data as evidence for trials. The Supreme Court reversed and remanded the Sixth Circuit court's decision.



After a 2011 robbery in Detroit, police gathered months of phone location data from Timothy Carpenter's phone provider without a warrant.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/supreme-court-says-warrant-necessary-for-phone-location-data/