Night vision
Thermal
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What it does
Night vision amplifies small amounts of visible or near-infrared light so a camera or a scope can see in the dark. It is not the same as a thermal camera, which reads heat. A night-vision camera still shows a picture of what is in front of the lens.
Privacy watchdog concerns
No watchdog page is attached.
Constitutional issues
Unresolved question
Fourth Amendment
Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency
Night vision: No Nevada night-vision program is documented. Kyllo is not a night-vision holding. No other case is borrowed.
No decision in this library decides night vision. Kyllo is not applied, because that case was about thermal imaging of a home, not light amplification.
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. Distinct from FLIR.
See also: FLIR and other thermal imaging
Next record
Night vision: Do not file night vision as thermal imaging.
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