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State finds bias against deputies

An investigator for the state Human Rights Bureau found reasonable cause that five Glacier County sheriff's deputies who are Caucasian were discriminated against when the county and the Blackfeet Tribe signed a cross-deputization agreement. A report by bureau investigator Ilka Becker said under the agreement, the Tribe commissioned Native American deputies who lived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, a Caucasian deputy married to a Native American and a black deputy to be Tribal officers, but not the other white deputies. An initial agreement was reached last July for deputies to help tri...

 

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