Convicted sex offenders challenge Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS tracking at Seventh Circuit
A class of convicted sex offenders in Wisconsin maintained to a Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday that the state’s lifetime GPS monitoring requirement runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment.
“No one denies the seriousness of sexual offending or the state’s strong interest in combating it, but the Fourth Amendment does not ask whether a search feels intuitively justified. It asks whether — in light of the evidence — the state has put forth a constitutionally sufficient justification for the search,” plaintiffs’ attorney Adele Nicholas said.
“In the context of a regime like registration, where an individual is being required to report information about their residence and other demographic information about themselves on a regular basis, categorical regimes have been upheld, and the government is allowed to proceed by presumption, essentially,” Nicholas said. “But as we move along this continuum toward restrictions that are much more intense, much more intrusive, much more long-lasting and affect constitutionally protected interests so much more strongly, the same categorical justification can’t be involved.”
You can listen to the oral arguments here: https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/sound/external/dab.25-1460.25-1460_12_16_2025.mp3
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When has the government ever let minor inconveniences like “adhering to the law” or “respecting the Constitution” stand in the way of its objectives? We all know that those in power will twist logic into whatever pretzels are required to dodge accountability and carry out as many outrages as they can get away with.