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ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – The ACLU of Virginia and the Roanoke Branch NAACP have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the practices of the Roanoke County Police Department, whose officers fatally shot an African-American teenager in February.
The ACLU of Virginia has sent letters to the chairs of the Fairfax County and Grayson County school boards advising that recent closed sessions were illegal and demanding that the subjects of the private meetings be disclosed to the public.