Using GPS Devices in Inspector General Investigations after Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor

Authors

Wesley Cheng, New York County District Attorney's Office

Document Type

Note

Category

Community Contributions

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

When the New York State Office of the Inspector General (“NY-OIG”) suspected that a New York State employee named Michael Cunningham was submitting false time reports, its investigators turned to electronic surveillance to assist in their collection of evidence. Without obtaining a judicial warrant, NY-OIG investigators covertly attached a global positioning system (GPS) device to Cunningham’s car and collected data on Cunningham’s vehicular movements twenty-four hours a day for a month, including during his vacation. Ultimately, the GPS data was used in a disciplinary hearing leading to Cunningham’s termination.

Disciplines

Law

Recommended Citation

Wesley Cheng, Using GPS Devices in Inspector General Investigations after Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor, (2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/public_integrity/118