UPDATE: Sources inform me that friends and family members of McGowan raised the bond money (most likely 2,500 dollars or 10 percent required by a bailbondsman) and he's now released from custody pending sentencing on Oct 21. Sources also inform me that McGowan WILL be on his local access show tomorrow at 9PM on Danbury Comcast channel 23.
According to the CT Judicial Branch website, John McGowan is still in custody held on 25,000 bond (which works out to 2,500 cash to a bail bondsman or value totaling 25,000).
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
UPDATE: Sources inform me that friends and family members of McGowan raised the bond money (most likely 2,500 dollars or 10 percent required by a bailbondsman) and he's now released from custody pending sentencing on Oct 21. Sources also inform me that McGowan WILL be on his local access show tomorrow at 9PM on Danbury Comcast channel 23.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
