ShotSpotter Must Hand Over Data in Illinois Criminal Case (1)

ShotSpotter Inc. must comply with subpoenas requesting information about its reliability and use in an Illinois arrest, a state appellate court ordered Wednesday.

The decision could fuel criticism about the gunfire detection system’s use by more than 100 municipalities nationwide.

"[T]he trial court did not abuse its discretion by allowing some discovery of ShotSpotter where the record indicates that a ShotSpotter alert was the only reason that police stopped defendant Jones’s vehicle and ordered him out of it,” Justice Eileen O’Neill Burke wrote in an opinion for a unanimous First District Appellate Court three justice panel, affirming a trial court ...