A federal judge overseeing a long-running racial profiling case against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office denied a request on Thursday to end oversight of the agency.
Maricopa County made the request in December, and it was supported by the U.S. Justice Department.
Defendants claimed the Sheriff’s Office is constitutionally compliant, institutionally reformed and has long obeyed most parts of court orders.
But now Judge G. Murray Snow writes that the Sheriff’s Office has failed to show goals of those orders have been achieved. And the agency has not set safeguards to ensure it won’t revert back to old behavior.
Snow also writes that reduced monitoring of the Sheriff’s Office may be appropriate and has set a 60-day deadline for the sides to submit potential changes.
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