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Courtney Jordan, Esq. Attorney | Former Federal Prosecutor | Felon — I built cases with these systems. Then they were used on me. Now I expose them.

10/03/2026

A Tulsa County deputy saw a car with a California plate, ran it through Flock, and got a month of that car’s movements. More than 50 sightings across multiple states.

A federal judge just ruled that using Flock this way violated the Fourth Amendment. No warrant. No probable cause. The evidence that followed was suppressed.

When the deputy ran the plate, the judge found that all he knew was that the car had a California license plate. Flock asked why he was searching. He entered “traffic violation” and “investigation.”

What makes this ruling different is the scale. Nearly every court to consider ALPR technology has gone the other way. This judge said those decisions rely too heavily on a 1983 case involving a beeper hidden in one container. Flock is something very different. It can give police a continuously updated history of every vehicle caught by cameras across the network. The judge called that “indiscriminate mass surveillance.”

The court’s point was simple: seeing your car on a public road is one thing. Quietly building a month long photographic history of where it has been is another.

One judge. One district. The government can appeal. But for the first time in this case, a federal court in Oklahoma drew the constitutional line at pulling that kind of location history without probable cause or a warrant.

United States v. Kyle, N.D. Okla., Doc. 62, Oct. 1, 2026. District court ruling, not binding on other courts, and subject to appeal.

09/17/2026

Your license plate has a search history. Most people think a Flock camera just reads your plate and moves on, but this federal case shows what happens next.

A Tulsa deputy saw a California-plated SUV and, before he pulled it over, typed the plate into two license plate reader databases (one is Flock) and pulled up where that car had been. He didn't have to follow it to California. The cameras had already done the remembering.

From the filings: the search didn't return one photo, it returned a history. Per the defense, it “traced the movements of the vehicle across weeks, multiple states, hundreds of miles,” with locations, dates, times, and direction, and it happened before the deputy observed the traffic violations he'd later use to stop her.

The question isn't whether police can see your plate once, it's what happens when thousands of public observations are stored, connected, and searchable weeks later.

A hundred public moments, stitched together, tell a story no single one could.

The court hasn't ruled yet.

09/16/2026

There's a claim going around that law enforcement can't get your FaceTime calls. It's half true, which is exactly what makes it dangerous, because the half people leave out is the half that can put you in a federal courtroom.

And it came up directly in the Lil Durk trial.

The half nobody's telling you:

(1) an agent testified FaceTime calls are still ON THE DEVICE, if law enforcement gets your actual phone, they can see them in the call list, no carrier needed.

And (2) prosecutors can use the choice against you, in this trial the government argued the group used FaceTime because “it's harder to track.”

Don't confuse “harder to track” with “untraceable.”

Note – Trial evidence. Verdict returned. Lil Durk was acquitted on call counts.

09/14/2026

Everyone says Lil Durk's next trial is about whether OTF was a criminal enterprise, but that's not exactly what the indictment says.

It acknowledges OTF “produced and sold hip-hop music,” then separately alleges that a SUBSET of OTF members and associates formed something different, the “Banks Gang Enterprise.”

That one word, subset, changes everything.

Making violent music isn't an enterprise. The government still has to prove it, and show where OTF ends and the alleged Banks Gang Enterprise begins.

That's what I'll be watching.

Note - Allegations only. No verdict on the retrial. Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty.

09/13/2026

Before a single witness testified in the Lil Durk federal trial, one juror said something during jury selection that may be the best explanation of the whole verdict.

And it wasn't just any juror. It was the person who would become the foreperson, the one who signed the verdict.

To be clear: I'm not saying this is WHY the jury acquitted, deliberations are private and unknowable.

What's verified is the identity chain and what she said in voir dire.

But before the trial even started, the future foreperson had put words to the exact principle the case would turn on: thinking something probably happened isn't proof.

Suspicion fills the gaps.

Reasonable doubt asks whether the evidence actually does.

Note – Trial commentary. Lil Durk was acquitted on all counts. His codefendants were convicted on the stalking counts.

09/11/2026

Your Wi-Fi router keeps a guest list.

Every device that connects leaves a record, and that record can put you in a specific place, on specific days, at specific times.

In the Lil Durk federal trial, the government didn't just use his phone against him, they used the router in his own house.

You can change the number. You can change the phone. But if the new device goes right back onto the same home network, the records may connect the dots for investigators.

Note – Trial evidence and allegations only. No verdict reached. Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty.

09/09/2026

In the Lil Durk federal trial closing, the government replayed ~56 seconds of a roughly 3-hour DJ Akademiks interview and told the jury it was an “incredible statement of responsibility,” arguing Lil Durk was essentially admitting involvement in the murder.

The defense objected. The judge overruled it. So the jury didn’t hear the complete interview.

Here's where evidence law gets strange: the government can generally use a defendant's own words against him, but a defendant usually can't just put in his own favorable statements, because on their own they can be hearsay.

Sometimes the biggest fight in a trial isn't what someone said, it's how much of it the jury is allowed to hear.

Note - Trial evidence and legal issues only. No verdict reached. Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty.

09/06/2026

A lot of you saw the video of my arrest and asked what happened. So here it is.

I was a federal prosecutor. I put people in prison. Then I became a federal defendant, and a convicted felon.

In 2022 I was arrested. What almost nobody knew, including me, was an undiagnosed seizure disorder the Oklahoma Supreme Court later connected to what happened that day.

But the arrest was the arrest. I was convicted of a felony and lost my license for a while. I didn't know who I was without the career I'd built my whole life around.

Eventually I fought for my license back, and I got it back. Now I walk back into federal court, this time as the defense attorney.

That's why I talk about this system the way I do: I've been the prosecutor, the defendant, and now the defense.

For a long time I looked at that video and saw everything I'd lost. Now I see how far I've come.

I'll never forget where I've been. It's part of what makes me great at what I do.

09/06/2026

Everyone following the Lil Durk trial knows the alleged target was Quando Rondo.

But the person who died was Saviay'a Robinson, and Lil Durk is separately charged with stalking Robinson resulting in death.

So how do you stalk someone who wasn't even the target? The judge drew an important line.

Robinson's death doesn't, by itself, prove the Robinson count. This is why charges have elements.

A terrible result is not a substitute for proof of a specific crime.

The fact that somebody died tells you what happened. The elements tell you who's legally responsible for it.

Note - Trial evidence and legal issues only. No verdict reached. Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty.

09/05/2026

Some of the men testifying against Lil Durk are facing mandatory life.

On cross, Keith Jones agreed that without the government deciding he provided substantial assistance, “whether it's at 45 or 85, you will die in a federal prison.”

He also agreed: “the only way you get off that life sentence is if the Government determines that you have given them substantial assistance.”

To be precise, the judge ultimately imposes the sentence, but the government controls that substantial-assistance decision.

So he's facing life, and the people he's testifying for are the same ones who decide whether he ever gets a shot at getting out.

Nobody has to promise a man freedom. If the alternative is dying in prison, the hope that cooperation could someday give you part of your life back is already enormous.

That doesn't mean he's lying.

Note - Trial evidence and allegations only. No verdict reached. Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty.

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