7月31日, 2021, the Chinook Center and other activist organizations helped to organize a march to bring awareness to the housing crisis in Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) had been spying on activists in the region for several years and planned to make arrests at the march. 事实上，CSPD确实逮捕了奇努克中心的领导人. Jacqueline Armendariz was walking her bicycle in the march when she saw police tackling a Chinook Center leader, and saw another police officer in riot gear running towards her. She dropped her bicycle, and the officer—untouched—continued towards the protesters.
抗议结束后, CSPD officers obtained warrants to (1) arrest Armendariz for allegedly attempting to assault an officer by dropping her bicycle and (2) search her home and seize all of her digital devices. 在没收了阿曼达里兹的设备之后, CSPD obtained another warrant to search all of the seized devices for words like “cop,”“抗议,”“人类,和“权利”.” The warrant also authorized the seizure of nearly all categories of data that could be found on a device for a period of more than two months, so long as the data was “determined to be relevant” to an unspecified investigation. CSPD also obtained a warrant to seize all 脸谱网 Messenger chats tied to the Chinook Center’s 脸谱网 profile, 连同所有的订户信息, 脸谱网帖子, 以及与个人资料相关的脸谱网活动. All of these warrants failed to comply with the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause and particularity requirements—which are applied with “scrupulous exactitude” when warrants implicate activities protected by the First Amendment. The warrants did not specify any crime for which evidence would be found in the searches, left officers with unfettered discretion to rummage through vast amounts of private digital data, and authorized the search and seizure of items for which there was no probable cause. Since the warrants were executed, all charges against Armendariz have been dropped. Yet the CSPD and the FBI (which helped extract the data from Armendariz’s devices) continue to retain Armendariz’s data without justification.
原告Armendariz和Chinook在联邦法院提起诉讼, claiming that the officers who drafted and approved the unconstitutional search warrants violated the state and federal constitutions and the Stored Communications Act. They also sued the City of Colorado Springs for its custom, 政策, and practice of using unconstitutional search warrants to retaliate against protesters and sending the message that people who organize and speak out about causes the CSPD disfavors will be met with incredibly invasive searches. 最后, Plaintiffs claimed that they are entitled to an injunction requiring the City and the FBI to return or delete their copies of Armendariz’s devices.
Aclu新闻稿:
"sbobet篮球起诉科罗拉多斯普林斯警方 and FBI Over Unlawful Invasions of 隐私， 2023年8月1日
媒体:
"ACLU Sues City and Four CSPD Officers Over 'Unjustified Search Warrants'《利记sbobet》，2023年8月1日
"Lawsuit Filed Against Colorado Springs Police Claims Unlawful Use of Search Warrants and Seizures，《sbobet篮球》，2023年8月1日
"FBI and Colorado Springs Police Department Sued Over Alleged Unlawful Invasion of 隐私，哥伦比亚广播公司科罗拉多频道，2023年8月1日
"sbobet篮球起诉科罗拉多斯普林斯警方，《利记sbobet》，2023年8月1日
"利记sbobet Claims FBI, Colorado Police Illegally Spied on Activists， MSN, 2023年8月6日
"ACLU Sues Colorado Springs, FBI Over 'Unconstitutional Spying on Activists' Devices，《利记sbobet》，2023年8月2日
"Colorado Springs Police, FBI Sued by ACLU of Colorado for Alleged Rights Violations， KKTV, 2023年8月3日
"Colorado sbobet篮球起诉科罗拉多斯普林斯警方 Department and FBI Alleged Unlawful 隐私 Invasions of Local Activist《利记sbobet》，2023年8月3日
"Lawsuit: Colorado Springs Police Targeted Left-Leaning Activist Groups With Undercover Agents, 不正当的认股权证，《利记sbobet》2023年8月3日
