If you are arrested by San Diego police and they take your cell phone, they cannot keep it for an unreasonable amount of time. The new policy is the result of a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a Black Lives Matter protestor.
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The federal lawsuit resulted in a policy that the ACLU said will, “protect people from SDPD’s unreasonable prolonged cell phone seizures.” “To our knowledge, it’s a first-in-the-nation policy. No other law enforcement agencies we were able to find, have anything like this," McBride said. “I think the same thing that got this policy to happen is going to be the same thing that makes sure that they follow it, and I think that’s the power of the people,” said Griffin-Jones.
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