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Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Welcome to Open Fields

13-8-2020 < Blacklisted News 24 172 words
 


Right now it appears that the government can put cameras on your land thanks to a liberal interpretation of the 4th Amendment.



(From AgWeb.com)


Months prior, in 2018, the Tennessee landowner removed a game camera secretly strapped to a tree on his private land by wildlife officials in order to monitor his activity without apparent sanction or probable cause. Repeat: Hollingsworth’s residence was searched by U.S. government and state officials, dressed to the nines in assault gear, seeking to regain possession of a trail camera—the precise camera they had surreptitiously placed on his private acreage after sneaking onto his property at night, loading the camera with active SD and SIM cards, and zip-tying the device roughly 10′ high up a tree—all without a warrant.



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