SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A Houston man and attorneys with the Institute for Justice will hold a press conference today to discuss a federal jury verdict finding that Bexar County violated a driver’s constitutional rights through a surveillance-driven traffic stop program.<\/p>\n
Alek Schott, along with Institute for Justice attorneys Christie Hebert and Jeff Rowes, will discuss the verdict and what comes next in the case.<\/p>\n
Schott sued after he was stopped on Interstate 35 in March 2022 while returning home from a business trip. According to the Institute for Justice, his truck had been flagged through a network of license plate surveillance cameras before a Bexar County deputy pulled him over.<\/p>\n
Schott was detained for 76 minutes and his truck was searched after a drug dog alerted. Nothing illegal was found.<\/p>\n
Attorneys argued the stop was part of a broader practice in which drivers were flagged based on travel patterns and deputies then looked for traffic violations to justify stopping and questioning them, according to the Institute for Justice. <\/p>\n
A federal jury sided with Schott and awarded him $76, one dollar for each minute he was detained.<\/p>\n
The Institute for Justice says it will now ask the court to prevent Bexar County from using what it describes as baseless traffic stops to conduct warrantless searches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A Houston man and attorneys with the Institute for Justice will hold a press conference…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-451263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}