Carlisle police search for missing teenage girl

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Carlisle police search for missing teenage girl

Carlisle police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who was last seen at Carlisle High School around 8:20 a.m. Thursday.

Dayanira Cagle was last seen wearing a black and gray Nike jacket with blue jeans and black shoes, police said.

Police described her as being about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds, with brown eyes and long black hair.

Anyone who interferes with the custody of a minor is liable to criminal prosecution, police said.

Anyone who sees Cagle or has information can contact police at 717-243-5252.

American police are using a powerful but relatively inexpensive cellphone-tracking tool to solve crimes. In some cases, they have used it to track people without a search warrant. All mobile devices are assigned an advertising ID, a unique code that allows location-enabled apps to target consumers with promotions. For just $7,500 a year, Fog Data Science, a Virginia-based company, offers a service called Fog Reveal that uses the advertising ID to track a device’s movements when location services are enabled. Documents reviewed by The Associated Press show that Fog heavily promotes its product to law enforcement. The company promotes what it calls “lifetime pattern” analysis, which can span months. Bennett Cyphers, a public records specialist and adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, calls Fog Reveal “a kind of low-budget mass surveillance program.” He and others say the warrantless use of the platform by police violates people’s Fourth Amendment rights. In a written response to The Associated Press, Fog said it cannot release information about its customers. The company has said it does not access or have anything to do with personally identifiable information and is mining commercially available data. Arkansas District Attorney Kevin Metcalf says Fog is simply using data that people give away for free, and that it is especially useful in cases where time is of the essence. Metcalf also heads the National Child Protection Task Force, a nonprofit that fights child exploitation and trafficking. Metcalf says Fog, who is among the task force’s sponsors, has been instrumental in solving missing children and homicide cases. Metcalf also shared his Fog account as part of the search for a missing nurse in 2020. Documents reviewed by AP show it was used by agencies as diverse as the U.S. Marshals and the sheriff's department in a North Carolina county with just 91,000 residents.

Maddie Seiler is a reporter for The Sentinel and cumberlink.com covering Carlisle and Newville. You can contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @byMaddieSei