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Joe Arpaio Office Lawyers, Justice Department To Meet Over Civil Rights Violations Accusations

By Luke Johnson Feb 02nd 2012 - 03:28PM

Lawyers for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office plan to meet Monday with U.S. Department of Justice attorneys over federal accusations of civil rights violations.

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Joe Arpaio Named Country's 'Worst Sheriff' By Janet Murguia, NCLR President

By The Huffington Post News Editors Feb 02nd 2012 - 03:21PM

A prominent national advocacy group for Latinos has joined a call for the self-proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" to resign from office amid a wide range of civil rights violations, botched sex crimes investigations and other alleged abuses.

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  • 02/09/12 Why irrelevance is important (and vice versa) Source: The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ Nowhere are irrelevant public figures more important than Arizona.
  • 02/09/12 Group gathers signatures in support of Arpaio Source: Your West Valley - Sun City AZ A group says it has collected nearly 100,000 online petitions signatures from across the country to demand that federal authorities prove their allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office has committed a wide range of civil rights violations.
  • 02/08/12 2 arrested in PHX for false identities Source: ABC - KNXV-TV 15.com - Phoenix AZ Two employees of a Phoenix maid service are in custody, accused of using fake identifications in order get work.
  • 02/07/12 Arpaio faces deadline in appeal in profiling case Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio face a Friday deadline for filing the opening brief in their appeal of a federal judge�s ruling that limited the sheriff�s immigration authority.
  • 02/06/12 Joe Arpaio on Blast by Citizens for a Better Arizona... Source: Feathered Bastard A point some local journos missed concerning the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors' recent hearing on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's various misdeeds was that the special meeting, which addressed Arpaio's racial profiling and his bungling of the more than 400 sex crimes cases , would not have taken place save for the efforts of Citizens for a Better Arizona.

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