State v. Meredith

In this criminal case, we must decide whether, under the circumstances here, the attachment and monitoring of an electronic tracking device (“transmitter”) to a truck that defendant’s government employer owned constituted a “search” under Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution. In affirming the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to suppress the evidence derived from the use of the transmitter, the Court of Appeals held that neither the attachment nor the subsequent monitoring of the transmitter had amounted to a search under Article I, section 9. State v. Meredith, 184 Or…