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Jefferson County Sheriff Reggie Marinelli is on a mission to head off shootings like the one at Evergreen High School in September, when a student gravely injured two classmates before killing himself. Marinelli wants a new Colorado law that requires social media companies to respond more quickly when authorities want digital information on users posting violent or threatening content.
In July, well before the shooting, the Anti-Defamation League, which investigates and tracks disturbing online content, spotted posts from a user that included violence, gore, and extremist ideologies. As is often the case, the group wasn’t able to identify the person behind the posts, who turned out to be the Evergreen shooter…