Lawsuit filed in tax office raid

The ACLU of Colorado has filed a class action lawsuit against Weld County authorities for violating privacy rights, following a raid in October of a tax services office. Local authorities seized tax records, as well as computers, and a hard drive because they had evidence that one of the clients was committing identity-theft. Since then, the county D.A. and the sheriff have used evidence from that raid to seek out and arrest hundreds of undocumented immigrants – but the ACLU says that authorities are violating privacy rights by searching through thousands of confidential records. Blake Wesley has the story.

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