(5) the County and MSCO were violating their Title VI contractual assurances and.(4) the County's jails discriminated against limited English proficiency Latino prisoners in violation of Title VI.(3) the MSCO's discriminatory law enforcements practices violated Title VI.(2) the MSCO targeted Latino workers while enforcing state identity theft laws, resulting in the seizure of Latinos at worksites without reasonable suspicion.(1) the MSCO's policies and practices discriminated against Latino persons.Specifically, the DOJ's complaint alleged that: District Court for the District of Arizona. § 14141 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against Maricopa County and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in the U.S. On May 10, 2012, the DOJ filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. The DOJ found that a lack of policy to ensure constitutional policing underscored these problems.
The DOJ also found that services in the Maricopa County Jail for people of limited English proficiency were insufficient or nonexistent. The DOJ found that the MSCO profiled Latinos, and unlawfully stoped, detained, and arrested Latinos. The letter reported that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) was engaged in an unconstitutional pattern of policing. In this matter, DOJ released its findings letter reporting the results of the investigation on December 15, 2011. In 2013, the Melendres Court found the MCSO in violation of the Constitution, and entered a permanent injunction forbidding racial profiling.) Arpaio, against the County of Maricopa, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (Also, prior to this case, in 2007, a group of plaintiffs had filed a lawsuit, Melendres v. Maricopa County settled that lawsuit in June 2011, and agreed to cooperate. The Sheriff's Office declined to cooperate in the investigation, leading the DOJ to file a a related lawsuit in September 2010 against Maricopa County under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, seeking to compel the Sheriff's Office to provide the requested information. The Sheriff's Office declined to cooperate in the investigation, leading the DOJ to file a a related lawsuit in … (The DOJ's initial inquiry apparently started in 2008, but the formal investigation opened with notice to the Sheriff's Office in March 2009.) Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2009 into the alleged targeting and unconstitutional treatment of Latinos by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. This lawsuit was the result of an investigation launched by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S.
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