DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court will review the Denver Police Department’s controversial use of a Google search warrant that led officers to identify and arrest three teenagers in connection with the 2020 arson of a Green Valley Ranch home that killed five family members.
A Denver District Court judge upheld the legality of the reverse-keyword search warrant late last year, but an attorney for Gavin Seymour, one of the teenagers charged in the case, said during a hearing Friday that oral arguments before the state’s highest court are scheduled for May.
The state Supreme Court decided earlier this month to review the ruling on Google search warrant, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization focused on digital privacy and rights, which filed an amicus brief in support of Seymour’s petition.
