Defamation lawsuit filed against immigrant rights group
Claims ‘false allegations' ruined police officer's character

postindependent.com
by John Stroud
Post Independent Staff
Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado
Friday, October 21, 2011

An attorney representing a Carbondale police officer has followed through on his pledge to file a defamation of character lawsuit against an immigrant rights group and its local representative.

Officer Alvaro Agon was the target of recent allegations by the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) and the group's regional organizer, Brendan Greene, claiming he used racial profiling in his dual role as Carbondale's school resource officer (SR0) and his previous work as a liaison with federal immigration enforcement officials.

Through press statements and followup media interviews, CIRC and Greene repeated “false allegationsâ€