"Police further obtained a warrant to search the Facebook page of the Chinook Center, the organization that spearheaded the protest, despite the Chinook Center never having been accused of a crime. The warrants included a search through all of her photos, videos, emails, text messages, and location data over a two-month period, as well as a time-unlimited search for 26 keywords, including words as broad as "bike," "assault," "celebration," and "right.""
"In a 2-1 opinion, the Tenth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of the lawsuit's Fourth Amendment search and seizure claims. The court painstakingly picked apart each of the three warrants and found them to be overbroad and lacking."
Following a 2021 housing protest in Colorado Springs, police obtained warrants to search protester Jacqueline Armendariz Unzueta's devices and data, including photos, videos, emails, text messages, and location information over two months, plus a time-unlimited keyword search using broad terms like "bike," "assault," "celebration," and "right." Police also obtained a warrant to search the Facebook page of the Chinook Center, the organization that organized the protest, despite it never being accused of a crime. The district court dismissed the civil rights lawsuit, but the Tenth Circuit reversed this dismissal in a 2-1 decision, finding the three warrants overbroad and lacking proper justification under the Fourth Amendment.
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