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by mdoms 1518 days ago
How does that appear? The article says,

> Officers simply have to attest in an affidavit that they have probable cause that the tracking data is “relevant to a crime that is being committed or has been committed.”

The term "reasonable suspicion" doesn't appear in the article at all.

2 comments

2 big problems: "relavent to a crime" is a very low standard.
Not a lawyer. Probable cause for a search warrant, to my understanding, means probable cause the target committed or abetted a crime. The target must be a suspect.

Probable cause for believing the target has information “relevant to a crime” sounds like something else, perhaps even lower than reasonable suspicion.