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September 2nd, 2015 
Awake Goy Following a report in USA Today that exposed the extent of the Baltimore Police Department’s use of cell-tracking technology to locate suspects sought in connection with low-level crimes, lawyers in the city’s public defender office now tell the paper they plan to ask the court to toss out “a large number” of convictions.
“This is a crisis, and to me it needs to be addressed very quickly,” Baltimore’s deputy public defender, Natalie Finegar, told USA Today. “No stone is going to be left unturned at this point.”
Law enforcement tools such as the StingRay, an “IMSI-catcher” used by investigators across the U.S., function by acting similarly to ordinary cell towers. The devices are designed to receive signals that are automatically sent by phones within range that are attempting to connect with actual service providers.
In the possession of the police, that data can be used by investigators to narrow in on a targeted device and pinpoint the location of a person of interest.
Their use has been largely shrouded in secrecy, however, and USA Today recently concluded that police in Baltimore have not only deployed their spy tools more than 1,900 times, but they did so while investigating low-level crimes and without acknowledging it in court.
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