Native Americans
Sep. 6, 2013
US does not have to fund reservation enforcement
Ruling in a case from the Los Coyotes Reservation in northeastern San Diego County, a 9th Circuit panel concluded Wednesday that the U.S. government does not have to pay for reservation policing.
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
American Indians on reservations fall victim to violent crime at twice the national average, but that doesn't mean the federal government must fund law enforcement on the Los Coyotes Reservation in northeastern San Diego County, a 9th Circuit panel concluded Wednesday. The 3-0 decision reversed U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia of San Diego. Federal officials were correct to reject the Los Coyotes tribes' funding request under...
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