Civil Rights

Seventeen plaintiffs claim the Baltimore Police Department's Special Enforcement Team systematically violates civil rights by unconstitutional arrests and searches, without warrants or probable cause, and malicious prosecutions, in Baltimore Federal Court.

Meeker County, Minn., illegally photographs arrestees' naked sexual areas because of Sheriff Mike Hirman's policy of photographing all body piercings, according to a class-action civil rights complaint in Minneapolis Federal Court.

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