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19 Oct 2009, 4:59 am
Instead, ICE has actually re-authorized agencies that have abused their authority, including the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 10:35 pm
8-15-2009 Arizona:A Maricopa County Sheriff's official said Thursday that his office's takeover of a county computer system was prompted by repeated requests by the state to protect sensitive criminal-justice data.Chief Deputy David Hendershott said the state Department of Public Safety was concerned that civilians could have inappropriate access to criminal-history records in the system. [read post]
13 Aug 2009, 4:02 pm
"Within the Department of Homeland Security we have Citizenship and Immigration Services. [read post]
31 Jul 2009, 4:00 am
As a striking example of this problem, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (profiled here in last week's New Yorker) refused to allow the IACHR to visit immigration detention facilities, raising serious doubts about federal government's ability to hold local law enforcement accountable for violating fundamental human rights.The Rapporteurship focuses on the impact of immigration detention on vulnerable populations -- asylum seekers and children, particularly… [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 5:08 am
AP reports that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, under investigation by the U.S. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 8:52 am
Andrea Nill writes on Sheriff Joe: When the Department of Justice (DOJ) beganinvestigating Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) following racial-profiling allegations, Arpaio... [read post]
30 May 2009, 3:56 pm
Arpaio's attorneys also accused the Justice and Homeland Security departments of violating legal ethics rules by working together to gather documents and witness statements without appropriate notice to the Maricopa County sheriff's unit, although the attorneys said they were told the probes would "operate completely independent of each other. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 1:14 pm
According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) letter dated March 10 (Download usdoj_letter_to_arpaio1.pdf ), the Civil Rights Division will be investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Bill Hing blogged yesterday about a protest over Arpaio's methods) of the Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff's... [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 7:25 am
The department could shrink by next year, and dozens of retirements are expected by the end of 2011. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 1:48 pm
View the article here I think if they would've listened to experts, then they would've told them this a long time ago. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 4:07 am
Instead, the department will change its policy to adopt a technique that was to be highlighted in the study. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 6:51 pm
In other good news, an Arizona judge has declared the conditions of the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio's domain -- unconsitutional. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 5:07 pm
Attorney General Michael Mukasey launch a Justice Department investigation into Sheriff Arpaio's and the MCSO's "discriminatory harassment, improper stops, searches and arrests" of Latino persons in Maricopa County. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 4:45 am
Often, the conversation will shift to the policies of Maricopa County, in Arizona, where Joe Arpaio, self-styled as "America's toughest sheriff," boasts of housing inmates in hot tents, giving them pink underwear and feeding them bologna sandwiches.- He's a Nazi wannabe. [read post]
13 Jul 2008, 11:51 am
Often, the conversation will shift to the policies of Maricopa County, in Arizona, where Joe Arpaio, self-styled as "America's toughest sheriff," boasts of housing inmates in hot tents, giving them pink underwear and feeding them bologna sandwiches.The downside of this approach, critics say, is that Maricopa County has paid out $43 million stemming from inmate lawsuits during Arpaio's 16-year tenure. [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 6:39 am
Mukasey, Mayor Phil Gordon asked the agency and the Justice Department’s civil rights division to examine what he called discriminatory harassment and improper stops, searches and arrests by sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County, which encompasses the metropolitan area. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 7:04 am
  State courts in Arizona struck down a policy adopted by the Maricopa County sheriff that denies requests of inmates to be transported to outside medical facilities for any procedure that was not medically required. [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 2:05 pm
Although the town's law doesn't officially take effect until next month, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has begun enforcing it this week. [read post]