New Orleans Police Continue Using Facial Recognition Despite City Restrictions by James Mills The New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) has used artificial intelligence-­powered facial recognition technology since at least 2018, often bypassing city ordinances designed to limit such surveillance, according to public records, internal emails, and a 2025 Washington Post …

Cell-Site Simulator Proposal: A Glimpse Inside the Black Box Whose Secrets Are Protected by NDAs and Obfuscation by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson The cell-site simulator (“CSS”) is a powerful and largely unregulated device once designed for military intelligence use that has found its way onto the streets of …

Stinging Back: Resisting Government Surveillance of Cellphones by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A cell-site simulators (“CSS”)—often referred to as a “Stingray” device, after a popular brand—is one of the newest and most controversial law enforcement tools since the introduction of the wiretap. Its use represents the intersection of …

The Serious Threat of Cell-Site Simulators by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Within the past several decades, police have acquired a new tool so secretive that prosecutors were told to either plea out cases or repress evidence rather than permit the public to know about them. Much to the …

Kentucky Supreme Court Announces Obtaining Real-Time CSLI Data Constitutes a Search Under Fourth Amendment, Addressing Legal Question U.S. Supreme Court Explicitly Left Open in Carpenter by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Kentucky upheld a suppression order, holding that individuals …

Alabama Supreme Court Announces Testimony About Cell-Site Location Data Is ‘Scientific’ Expert Testimony, Not Lay, Triggering Daubert Analysis by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso In its January 8, 2021, opinion, the Supreme Court of Alabama held that a law enforcement agent’s testimony about how historical cell-site data could be used …