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Federal judge grants immunity to Fountain officers for detaining man, entering home without warrant
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A federal judge last month threw out a Fountain man’s claims that police officers acted unconstitutionally when they responded to his home for a welfare check, only to restrain him and enter the house without a warrant. Kyle A. Fisher alleged three officers were unjustified in investigating his children’s wellbeing, and he assumed their visit…
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Federal judge grants immunity to Fountain officers for detaining man, entering home without warrant
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A federal judge last month threw out a Fountain man’s claims that police officers acted unconstitutionally when they responded to his home for a welfare check, only to restrain him and enter the house without a warrant. Kyle A. Fisher alleged three officers were unjustified in investigating his children’s wellbeing, and he assumed their visit…
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Fountain police had no probable cause to deploy drug-sniffing dog, appeals court rules
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An El Paso County judge wrongly concluded that Fountain police acted lawfully when they used a drug-detection dog to uncover illegal narcotics in a man’s vehicle – even though there was no probable cause of a crime, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. By a 2-1 decision, a panel of the appellate court agreed…
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Residents in 3 Colo. towns carry toxic chemicals, blood tests show
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Many Security, Widefield and Fountain residents have extremely high levels of toxic chemicals in their bodies compared with other Americans, apparently from drinking water contaminated by firefighting foam used for decades at Peterson Air Force Base, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Thursday. The Colorado School of Public Health and the Colorado School of Mines…
