{"id":53705,"date":"2022-12-05T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53705"},"modified":"2022-12-06T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:27:15","slug":"wapo-police-misused-find-my-app-before-raiding-77-year-olds-home-aclu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53705","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Police misused Find My app before raiding 77-year-old\u2019s home, ACLU says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/12\/06\/denver-swat-raid-lawsuit-johnson\/\">Police misused Find My app before raiding 77-year-old\u2019s home, ACLU says<\/a> by Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was a Tuesday afternoon in Denver and Ruby Johnson \u2014 a 77-year-old woman and retired U.S. Postal Service worker \u2014 was relaxing in a robe and slippers. Her plans of watching television, however, were suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a heavily armed SWAT team.<\/p><p>Outside Johnson\u2019s house on Jan. 4 was a slew of officers not far from an armored vehicle. Using a bullhorn, one of the officers ordered everyone inside the home to come out, body-camera footage shows.<\/p><p>The officials were investigating the theft of a stolen white truck carrying firearms, drones, $4,000 in cash and an iPhone \u2014 but they had gotten the wrong address and, in doing so, conducted an \u201cillegal search\u201d of Johnson\u2019s property, a lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union alleges.<\/p><p>Now, Johnson is suing Gary Staab, the lead detective in a raid that Johnson\u2019s attorneys say was based on a faulty reading of a geolocation pin on Apple\u2019s Find My app and a \u201chastily prepared, bare-bones, misleading affidavit\u201d used to obtain a warrant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Police misused Find My app before raiding 77-year-old\u2019s home, ACLU says by Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53706,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53705\/revisions\/53706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}