Police Using Special Radar that Can See Through Walls: Court Worries They Might Abuse Power | We Are Change
Police usage of Doppler radar to detect whether someone is in a house could raise “grave Fourth Amendment questions,” the 10th Circuit ruled Tuesday.
The case stems from the hunt by police for Kansas parolee Steven Denson. After Denson had stopped checking in with his probation officer while on release from a sentence for armed robbery, police used a utility bill to track him down and search his home.Though Denson pleaded guilty to illegal possession of firearms, he preserved his right to appeal claims that the entry and search of his home were unlawful.
The 10th Circuit sided with the government but it acknowledged that the government’s use of a Doppler radar device to detect whether someone was in the house was problematic.
