Government Will Take ‘Tower Dump’ Warrant Application Fight To 5th Circuit

( September 15, 2026, 7:54 AM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. government has filed a notice of appeal over orders from a Mississippi federal court that declined to enter warrants that the lower court said “would permit law enforcement to use ‘tower dumps’ to access the time-and-location-data of all devices that connected to cell towers around the area where” violent crimes allegedly occurred....