With protections in place, body cameras have the potential to better document encounters between police officers and citizens while mitigating competing concerns about their potential for misuse or abuse.

In People v Dawes, LaQuan Dawes was charged with robbery based on cellphone location and account data gathered from Google and obtained via a geofence warrant. Dawes is represented by Michael Price, Senior Litigation Counsel for the Fourth Amendment Center, and Sierra Villaran, Deputy Public Defender for the San Francisco Public Defenders Office.

Charie appealed the district court's denial of his motion to suppress location information from a geofence warrant. This decision affirms the district court's decision. They do not find a privacy interest in location information or that obtaining 2 hours of Chatrie's data consituted a search due to user's ability to opt-out of Location History. Note the robust dissent that begins on page 36, which applies the Fourth Amendment to modern technology and highlights the likelihood that geofence warrants capture the movements of individuals in private spaces. 

Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant’s Petition for Review

For attorneys representing criminal defendants, court decisions on search and seizure often seem to overwhelmingly favor the interests of law enforcement. This document compiles over 30 years of cases in which defendants and civil rights plaintiffs have prevailed. It hopes to provide raw material for criminal defense lawyers to fashion suppression motions, based on chronology and causation, that can enforce their clients’ rights against government overreach while supporting an expansive view of the Fourth Amendment’s protections. 

Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant’s Petition for Review

NACDL adopts a report and recommendations on law enforcement searches of digital evidence.

The Board of Directors adopted model legislation to protect individual privacy against unwanted governmental intrusion through the use of drones

Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner.

NACDL adopts a report and recommendations to address flaws through reform to the mail cover program.

The instant Indictment and a companion Indictment accuse 25 people, mostly young, overwhelmingly people of color, and many of them heroin addicts, of a conspiracy conducted essentially by communication through cell phones.

Brief Of Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, Brennan Center For Justice, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Freedomworks Foundation, National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers, And Rutherford Institute In Support Of Plaintiffs-Appellants’ Petition For Rehearing En Banc.

Brief of Amici Curiae The American Civil Liberties Union, The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.

Brief of Amici Curiae The American Civil Liberties Union, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey

Brief of Amicus Curiae for the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of the Appellee.