'Unless called to account in this lawsuit, the police could seize and search the phones and devices of anyone in our community,' argues a lawsuit filed by ACLUofColorado accusing CSPD officers and the FBI of unconstitutional search and seizure.
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"Over the last several years, CSPD has engaged in a concerted campaign against activists in the region, abusing its powers to target them through infiltration, surveillance, and dragnet warrants to search and seize their personal devices and digital data without justification," the complaint states."the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Colorado Springs police then obtained a search warrant—one of several that are the subject of this lawsuit—to search the Chinook Center's private chats on Facebook Messenger. The warrant did not even purport to be supported by probable cause. It was not limited to a search for any particular evidence, let alone evidence of a particular crime, and it was unlimited as to topics.
The arrest, police said, gave them the right to search activists' devices because protesters used them to share photos and messages.The FBI is named in the lawsuit because, according to the filing, agents at its Rocky Mountain Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory illegally seized, searched, and copied Armendariz Unzueta's personal devices.
"This case is about love for my community. I hope CSPD will never again target, terrorize, and attempt to silence others as they did to me."
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