{"id":5459,"date":"2026-10-01T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/jury-finds-bexar-county-violated-drivers-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:43:14","slug":"jury-finds-bexar-county-violated-drivers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/jury-finds-bexar-county-violated-drivers-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Finds Bexar County Violated Driver\u2019s Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FimULfqB6hzo%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal jury rules Bexar County violated driver\u2019s rights in license plate reader stop\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imULfqB6hzo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> SAN ANTONIO, TX \u2013 October 1, 2026 (STL.News) A federal jury found Bexar County, Texas, liable for violating a driver\u2019s Fourth Amendment rights during a 2022 traffic stop that grew out of a law-enforcement surveillance system that could track motorists through license-plate data and identify travel patterns considered suspicious. The eight-member federal jury found that Bexar County violated the constitutional rights of Houston-area resident Alek Schott by stopping him without sufficient legal justification, improperly extending his detention and searching his pickup truck without lawful cause. The jury awarded Schott $76 \u2014 the amount he requested, representing $1 for<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/jury-finds-bexar-county-violated-drivers-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO, TX \u2013 October 1, 2026 (STL.News) A federal jury found Bexar County, Texas, liable for violating a driver\u2019s Fourth Amendment rights during a 2022 traffic stop that grew out of a law-enforcement surveillance system that could track motorists&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}