{"id":24186,"date":"2019-05-23T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=366300"},"modified":"2019-05-23T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:20:55","slug":"new-colorado-marijuana-law-addresses-future-of-drug-sniffing-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/new-colorado-marijuana-law-addresses-future-of-drug-sniffing-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Colorado marijuana law addresses future of drug-sniffing dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
K-9 Echo and her partner, master deputy Rebecca Anderson, are the only active K-9 team currently with the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office.<\/strong>
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Colorado\u2019s Supreme Court on Monday ruled 4-3<\/a> that a sniff of a car by police dogs trained to smell for marijuana in addition to other drugs constitutes a search \u2014 which is a big deal that doesn\u2019t really sink in at first.<\/p>\n

To search someone\u2019s car, police need evidence of a crime. When the case was argued before the court late last year<\/a>, lots of the talk focused on whether an alert from a pot-trained dog was enough to give police reason to dig through someone\u2019s car looking for drugs. After all, if possession of small amounts of marijuana is now legal, how does the officer know that the dog is barking because it smells a crime?<\/p>\n

But the majority in this case \u2014 named People v. McKnight, after a guy whose car was searched in Craig because of the bark of a police dog that was a holdover from pre-legalization days \u2014 went further. The justices said simply bringing out a pot-trained dog to sniff around now constitutes a search, in and of itself. As in, it\u2019s something that police have to have evidence in order to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dog\u2019s sniff arguably intrudes on a person\u2019s reasonable expectation of privacy in lawful activity,\u201d Justice William Hood wrote in the majority\u2019s ruling. \u201cIf so, that intrusion must be justified by some degree of particularized suspicion of criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, if police already have probable cause, they would most likely just search the car directly, themselves. Hence, this ruling almost certainly puts Colorado\u2019s pot-trained police dogs into retirement.<\/p>\n

Read more via The Colorado Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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K-9 Echo and her partner, master deputy Rebecca Anderson, are the only active K-9 team currently with the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office.Special to the Daily Colorado\u2019s Supreme Court on Monday ruled 4-3 that a sniff of a car by police dogs trained to smell for marijuana in addition to other drugs constitutes a search \u2014 which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:27:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}