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Find My cost the city of Denver $3.76 million
Compensation and damages
. In 2022, city police mistakenly raid an elderly woman’s home and ransack it, looking for a truck and stolen weapons.
According to a CNN report.
Denver Police
They were seeking to recover a stolen truck loaded with guns, ammunition and cash. For this purpose, the police used Apple Find My technology on another device
iPhone
To locate the vehicle.
However, the police chose the wrong house from a fairly wide area to break into and arrest the burglars.
Because of this misplaced raid, the 78-year-old
Robbie Johnson
File a lawsuit against the police. As compensation, the city will pay Johnson an award of $3.76 million.
Furthermore, the defendant officers – Detective Gary Stapp and Sgt. Gregory Bushey – also sued as an individual. Denver police had previously acquitted the two men of any wrongdoing, but the jury disagreed.
How Apple’s Find My app played a role
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the case on Johnson’s behalf. The raid was conducted based on “an alleged location test of the Find My iPhone app that the officers neither understood nor received any training in,” the lawsuit stated.
According to the complaint, police relied on a “Find My” test from an iPhone 11 that may have still been in the stolen truck. However, the area identified includes parts of six other properties in parts of four housing estates.
Johnson’s lawyer said in a statement
Tim McDonald
“We are troubled by the lack of training or policy changes and hope the punitive damages amount sends a strong message that the Police Department must take seriously the constitutional rights of its residents,” he said.
The ACLU and the jury concluded that the two police officers who ordered the raid had no reason to target Johnson’s home.
The officers also must pay approximately $1.25 million in punitive and compensatory damages. The Denver District Court clerk noted that the city has not yet filed an appeal of the ruling.
