The ACLU is suing the Pima County Sheriff's Department over reports that deputies are calling immigration officials when they conduct a traffic stop.
In a new lawsuit, ACLU Attorney John Mitchell says his organization filed a public records request back in May, asking for the practices of the agency, specifically its policy about contacts with federal officials to verify someone's immigration status.
Sheriff Chris Nanos denies his deputies are making those calls.
Mitchell also says he has reason to believe that any policies about tracking interactions with federal officials were wiped out shortly after the records request was submitted.
Nanos told Capitol Media Services there was some kind of tracking about interactions with those possibly here illegally. But he said he inherited it from his predecessor.
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Fifty-six-year-old Emmanuel Damas died in a Scottsdale hospital March 2. His family says he began complaining of a toothache around Feb. 13, but was given only ibuprofen at the Florence Correctional Center. -
Grijalva, local leaders and a few dozen protesters gathered outside the gated-off Marana Prison complex – an old state prison sold to the for-profit Management & Training Corporation last year for $15 million. -
On Tuesday, the person in charge of overseeing kitchen staff for more than a dozen sports bars raided in January by immigration authorities pleaded guilty in federal court. -
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A Day 1 executive order enacted by President Donald Trump froze all refugee admissions and the funding attached to them.
