A federal judge in Mississippi has declared "tower dump" warrants unconstitutional. These warrants allow law enforcement to access location data from all cellphones connected to a specific tower during a set time. The government had sought these warrants to identify suspects in violent, gang-related crimes in Jackson, Mississippi. A magistrate judge initially denied the requests, deeming them impermissible general warrants. The district judge upheld this decision, agreeing that such warrants violate the Fourth Amendment. The ruling heavily referenced the Supreme Court's recent decision in Chatrie v. United States concerning geofence warrants and privacy. Judge Carlton Reeves stated that while tower dumps might identify suspects, they also collect data from innocent individuals. Accessing the cellular records of countless people passing by a location at the "wrong" time is an unreasonable search. Therefore, such warrants infringe upon constitutional privacy protections.