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ACLU Challenges Excessive and Unlawful Searches by Police in Etowah County, Alabama

by Gary Kopycinski on September 12, 2013

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The Etowah County Sheriff’s Department has abused its authority by conducting multiple unauthorized searches of a family’s home in flagrant violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.