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Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department — en banc surveillance opinion (2021)
2 F.4th 330 (4th Cir. 2021) (en banc). Access to Baltimore’s comprehensive retrospective aerial movement database was a Fourth Amendment search. The court reversed denial of a preliminary injunction against its warrantless operation.
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- Federal agencies
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- June 24, 2021
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Document details
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- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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- Federal agencies
Source notes
Official en banc opinion, No. 20-1495; majority pp. 17–29, especially p. 28. Binding circuit precedent in Virginia federal courts. This is the 2021 en banc decision, not the superseded 2020 panel opinion. It does not impose a warrant requirement on every camera or AI tool.
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