(The Center Square) — Federal oversight of the Melendres orders, which is expected to cost Maricopa County taxpayers $353 million by 2026, is no longer necessary, Supervisor Thomas Galvin told The Center Square.
Another member of the Board of Supervisors for Arizona’s most populous county is also calling for an end to the orders. Supervisor Debbie Lesko called the cost “unacceptable.”
“Lining the pockets of a court-appointed monitor instead of investing in the Sheriff’s department doesn’t make our neighborhoods safer,” Lesko said in a news release.
The Melendres orders came after the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was found to have violated Hispanic people’s constitutional rights after the office used racial profiling and illegal traffic stops against Latinos.
As a result of the Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres v. Arpaio lawsuit in 2007, the
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