A government sponsored safety network known as BUDS, Brothers Under Distress System, was enacted on April 27th, 2020. This network uses facial recognition cameras to locate criminals inside the State of Georgia’s criminal database that are currently wanted by the police. These networks were implemented statewide in all Georgia county police departments by placing cameras on law enforcement vehicles. The state of the art technology technology works by scanning every individual’s face that the vehicle passes and uses features such as their mouth width and eye spacing to match the scans with criminals in the database. The camera’s also have the ability to scan faces through walls.
In December of 2025, a 45 year-old white caucasian male known as Mikey Kosavic was sitting in his home office watching questionable videos on the interweb. Three years earlier Mikey Kosavic had been involved in armed robbery in Lumpkin County that had lead to two police officers getting injured. Kosavic fled the scene and was not arrested but his accomplice, Jeremy Willis was brought into custody. In exchange for a lesser prison sentence, Mr. Willis exposed Kosavic’s identity. Multiple witnesses at the bank corroborated Mr. Willis’ testimony, by identifying Kosavic’s face from a group of mugshots. His face was already in the database as a result of a prior arrest for crack possession while soliciting underaged prostitutes.
A police car equipped with the aforementioned cameras, was patrolling a middle class neighborhood in Nankipooh, Georgia where Kosavic was living under the alias “Yosiah Youngthug.” When stopped at a traffic light, the camera on the police car scanned and positively identified Kosavic’s face while Kosavic was sitting inside his upstairs office. The camera alerted the officer in the patrol car and he promptly made the arrest.
Kosavic in his trial contested the arrest by stating that the BUDS network was illegally invading his fourth amendment rights. The Lumpkin County Court found Kosavic guilty, and Kosavic appealed. The Georgia Courts of Appeals denied his request to be heard. Kosavic appealed to the Supreme Court…