Read all about it:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/...lance-aircraft-over-us-cities.html?ESRC=eb.nl
"The FBI does not generally obtain warrants to record video from its planes of people moving outside in the open, but it also said that under a new policy it has recently begun obtaining court orders to use cell-site simulators [STINGERS]. The Obama administration had until recently been directing local authorities through secret agreements not to reveal their own use of the devices, even encouraging prosecutors to drop cases rather than disclose the technology's use in open court."
Emphasis added by me.
How recently? AFTER Jessica's murder?
Just a new FBI policy, or for all LE, federal-state-local?
Hmmm. Hmmm.
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Stingray System information I found when following the Jessica Ridgeway case in CO.;
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/08/cellphone-data-spying-nsa-police/3902809/
<snip> " At least 25 police departments own a Stingray, a suitcase-size device that costs as much as $400,000 and acts as a fake cell tower. The system, typically installed in a vehicle so it can be moved into any neighborhood, tricks all nearby phones into connecting to it and feeding data to police. In some states, the devices are available to any local police department via state surveillance units. The federal government funds most of the purchases, via anti-terror grants."
Cell tower dumps are widely known and more common;
<snip>In October 2012, in Colorado, a 10-year-old girl vanished while she walked to school. Volunteers scoured Westminster looking for Jessica Ridgeway.
Local police took a clandestine tack. They got a court order for data about every cellphone that connected to five providers' towers on the girl's route. Later, they asked for 15 more cellphone site data dumps.
Colorado authorities won't divulge how many people's data they obtained, but testimony in other cases indicates it was at least several thousand people's phones.
The court orders in the Colorado case show police got "cellular telephone numbers, including the date, time and duration of any calls," as well as numbers and location data for all phones that connected to the towers searched, whether calls were being made or not. Police and court records obtained by USA TODAY about cases across the country show that's standard for a tower dump."
I remember the court documents with the affidavits for the tower info but those documents are no longer online. The first warrants for each provider did not include identifying information for each cell number. When they had matches to the 3 different crime scenes involved, showing a ping on the towers during the time frame in question, they filed separate affidavits for the identifying information for those numbers. Austin Sigg had pinged at 2 of those areas at the correct time.
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