Infrared tracking · LVMPD INFO

Evidence rule

This page is public-interest research. An argument grade is not a court finding. A watchdog page describes the device. It is not proof a Nevada agency bought it or turned a feature on. A product description is not a Nevada practice. Agencies are not merged: the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Clark County School District, the City of Reno, and the Nevada Department of Public Safety stay separate. A hotlist hit is not a confirmed crime. Legal review of this page is unverified.

What it does

Infrared tracking follows a person or a vehicle by the heat picture over time, rather than taking one thermal image of a house. The sensor is the same family as FLIR. The use is following, not a single look at a wall.

Privacy watchdog concerns

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Drones and Robots. EFF says police drones can carry cameras, thermal sensors, plate readers, Wi-Fi sensors, and other tools, including tethered aircraft and drone-as-first-responder docks, and that this enables surveillance of people who are not suspects. EFF also wrote that, as of late 2022, the Clark County Sheriff in Nevada planned to buy 400 drones for first response. This page has not reviewed that purchase. The sentence is EFF’s claim, not a contract, and it is not relabeled here as an LVMPD deployment.

Constitutional issues

Unresolved question

Fourth Amendment, Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18

Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency

Infrared tracking: No Nevada infrared tracking is documented. Kyllo does not decide following a vehicle on a public road. Knotts is counterauthority for a beeper, not for this camera.

Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001). Does not decide this technology. United States Supreme Court. Kyllo decided a thermal look at a home. It does not decide following a car by heat on a public road.
United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983). Counterauthority. United States Supreme Court. Knotts is counterauthority for a public-road beeper, not a holding about an infrared camera.

Statutes attached to read, not findings.

NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18. State search-and-seizure provision. This page does not quote the section. No section anchor was verified. It is listed only where a search question is actually implicated.
42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.

Nevada use

Not documented on this page.

Capability only.

Next record

Infrared tracking: Keep the home-imaging holding on the thermal card.

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