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ACLU Challenges the seizing of private preparer’s tax records

By immigrationprof

The ACLU filed a class action in state district court Monday evening arguing that Weld County Sheriff John Cooke and Nineteenth Judicial District Attorney Ken Buck are violating the privacy rights of thousands of law-abiding taxpayers by keeping copies of confidential information obtained in an illegal search of Amalia’s Translation and Tax Service in Greeley, Colorado, last fall. In the October search, deputies took 49 file boxes filled with the tax returns and related information dating back to 2000 regarding approximately 4900 of Ms. Cerrillo’s tax preparation clients. The officers also took dozens of CDs and floppy disks and copied all the electronic documents on the hard drives of Ms. Cerrillo’s computers.

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