08/04/2026
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that when law enforcement obtains a person’s cellphone-location history through a geofence warrant, it is conducting a search under the Fourth Amendment.
That matters.
Geofence warrants can allow the government to collect location data from every phone in a particular area and then work backward to identify a suspect. Innocent Americans can be swept into an investigation simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
For years, I have fought these same constitutional issues in our courts, including challenging the government’s use of geofence data in Indiana criminal cases. I saw my first one of these in 2019, and they didn’t stop there.
Supporting law enforcement and defending the Constitution are not opposing principles. Our officers should have the tools they need to protect the public, but those tools must remain subject to probable cause, meaningful judicial oversight, and the limits placed on government by the Fourth Amendment.
The Constitution was written to restrain government power. New technology does not create an exception.
Limited government, personal liberty, and the right to be free from unreasonable searches are core conservative principles. I am proud to have fought for those protections in the courtroom, and I will continue standing up for the constitutional rights of every Hoosier.
