Sadie Gurman reports in the Denver Post that the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department (one of the most populous counties in Colorado) is being monitored by the U.S. Justice Department, because it has had a policy of not hiring people who cannot prove they are legal U.S. citizens!
The sheriff's office has since told those rejected applicants that they can reapply for jobs and has agreed to revise its hiring procedures as a result of the federal probe, the results of which were announced Friday."We absolutely deny we did anything wrong," Sheriff Grayson Robinson said. "We were always under the impression we could require proof of citizenship for people to serve as peace officers."
Nevertheless, he said his office is complying with the terms of the Justice Department's agreement, which mandates retraining for employees and subjects the office to random audits and inspections, among other stipulations. Robinson said the agreement came after lengthy discussions between his office and federal authorities.
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