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When The Police Watch You – Pole Cameras And Colorado Law
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
Introduction – Technology That “Watches Us”
The collective forces of Colorado law enforcement use various technology to conduct surveillance ostensibly as a means of detecting crime. These technologies used can vary from GPS devices attached to automobiles, to cell towers used to trace the movement of cell phones, to the subject of this article – the use of so called “pole cameras” to record the movements of people in public places.