Institute for Justice urges warrants and stronger limits on ALPR networks

Oct 6, 2026

An Institute for Justice attorney told Marshall County commissioners that ALPR networks aggregate long-term location histories and that courts increasingly treat such collections as searches that may require warrants.

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Noah Basis (speaker 11), legislative strategist for the Institute for Justice, told the board that modern ALPR networks can reconstruct long location histories and may implicate the Fourth Amendment. Basis cited Carpenter and other court decisions, said Flock’s national network aggregates billions of scans, and urged courts and legislatures to require warrants or strong statutory limits on access to historical location data.

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