FREDERICK COUNTY, MD: "A U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday in a case involving the Frederick County Sheriff, and the ACLU of Maryland is calling it a victory. ACLU of Maryland Attorney Nick Steiner says Judge Richard Bennett ruled that sheriff Chuck Jenkins and two other deputies can be sued as both officials and individuals in the case of Medrano v. Jenkins.
The lawsuit filed in 2019 alleges that Frederick Latina resident Sara Medrano was racially profiled and illegally detained by deputies Randy Barrera and Brian Mothershead after being pulled over for a faulty taillight.
“It turns out her taillight actually was working perfectly fine,” Steiner explained, “[The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office has] a practice of targeting Latinx people in the hopes that they can get the person deported, which is exactly what sheriff Jenkins wants.”
Medrano was told she had an immigration issue and was unable to leave as deputies attempted to have an a U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) agent arrest her. The ICE agent told deputies he would not be responding to the incident. Jenkins firmly asserts that questions on an individual’s immigration status is only asked during the booking process at the county detention center."
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