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Michigan GPS Tracking Laws: Is It Legal to Put a Tracker on a Car? (2026)

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Michigan GPS Tracking Laws: Is It Legal to Put a Tracker on a Car? (2026)

Updates

Corrected the description of United States v. Jones to the holding the Court actually reached: GPS tracking of a vehicle is a Fourth Amendment search, with the warrant question left undecided.

Corrected how the protective-order tracking ban interacts with the statute's exceptions: MCL 750.539l(2) applies to all of subsection (1), and it is subsection (3) that strips the licensed investigator exemption when the client is the restrained party.

Governing law re-checked for recent changes

Corrected the MCL 750.539l civil-liability quote and every restatement of it: the statute's civil damages remedy also reaches bail agents and licensed private investigators who are criminally exempt, not only an illegal installer.

Governing law re-checked for recent changes

Independently fact-checked against the cited primary sources

Sources and References

  1. MCL 750.539l (Placing tracking device on motor vehicle; prohibition; exceptions; penalty)(legislature.mi.gov)
  2. MCL 750.411h (Stalking)(legislature.mi.gov)
  3. MCL 750.411i (Aggravated stalking)(legislature.mi.gov)
  4. MCL 600.8321 (Court officers)(legislature.mi.gov)
  5. United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012)(law.cornell.edu)
  6. 18 U.S.C. 2261A (Federal stalking statute)(law.cornell.edu)
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