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Jan. 30, 2020Wichita, Kan. | By: AP
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal court filing alleges that the Kansas Highway Patrol has a practice of unlawfully targeting motorists based on their out-of-state license plates or Colorado travel plans, due to that state's legalization of marijuana.
Among the allegations contained in the new filing are statistics showing that drivers with out-of-state plates made up 93% of all of the agency's traffic stops in 2017.
What began as a hand-scrawled complaint filed last December by two irate drivers themselves in federal court got some legal firepower on Thursday when the American Civil Liberties Union and a Missouri attorney filed an amended complaint.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says it cannot comment on pending litigation.
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