Settlement: Border Patrol to share stop records

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Source: AP

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol will share records of every traffic stop it makes in Washington's Olympic Peninsula for 18 months with immigrant advocacy groups as part of a settlement to a lawsuit that said agents were racial profiling people they pulled over.

The agreement settles a lawsuit filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project against the Border Patrol that said people were stopped and questioned for the way they looked and without reasonable suspicion.

As part of the settlement reached Tuesday, the agency also agreed to retrain its agents on the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and requires warrants, federal court filings show. The agency also will write a letter reaffirming agents must adhere to the protections provided by the amendment when they are on patrol.

The Border Patrol, though, admits no wrongdoing in the settlement.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/settlement-border-patrol-share-stop-records

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. That's the Canadian border. Were they hassling lumberjacks and curling teams?

Or were they hassling guys named Juan and Pedro?

[CanSocDem]

2. I fear...

...that they'll be "hassling" old white guys like me. You know, the ones with that Old Hippie air about them?

Despite having many cousins living in Wa, I'm sure the Border Patrol will recognize that I'm just there for the cannabis.


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[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Hope this 'settlement" idea spreads to other states.

and cities.