Supreme Court of the United States

Torrey Dale Grady v. North Carolina.

March 30, 2015135 S. Ct. 1368

Summary

The Court held that North Carolina’s satellite‑based monitoring program, which requires a sex offender to wear an ankle‑bracelet that continuously tracks his movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, and vacated the state courts’ judgments, remanding for further proceedings on the reasonableness of the search.