Magistrate Permits Search Of Cell Tower Records For Sex-Trafficking Investigation

(February 10, 2023, 9:41 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Justice was granted an application for a warrant to search cell tower data as part of its investigation of several violent crimes in Chicago that included sex trafficking, with an Illinois federal magistrate judge finding that proposed protocols within the warrant sufficiently safeguard third-party privacy interests for uninvolved individuals whose data might be included in the search results....