Sueing a town?

There was a problem this weekend and the police came to a friends home to check on the wife because her sister was worried about her. He knocked she opened to see who it was he pushed her in the home and made her sit down. He kept asking where the meth pipes were and the dope. This police officer knows this family very well also and know there isn't any meth. He does know that someone in the home smokes weed. The cop said he was going to search the home for anyone else for their safety and ended up going through the drawers and everything. The child got taken away and custody to the grandparents, and all over a pipe and some leaves that you can't even do anything with! There were a few police officers and they made it clear that it was so old, you can't even do anything with it.... There was no paper work found on the baby getting released to the grandparents, and now they don't know what to do.

Sueing a town?
Sounds like a case of illegal search and seizure. Get a good attorney {not a local one either}. If the officer writes a really good report he might be o.k. but push it and find out. If he's guilty then sue th department,the city and the officer himself. If ya win you'll get money and the police chief will probably lose his job along with the officer.
Reply:It sounds like you didn't get the full story. They wouldn't take the baby away if there was "nothing" there. And if the baby's getting released to the grandparents, then social services has decided there's good cause not to let the baby be with the parents. Was their house clean? Were the parents being violent with each other? Was there more than just "a few leaves you can't do anything with?"



Parents shouldn't have any kind of illegal substances in the home with their children anyway, but people who DO get caught with marijuana very rarely get their kids taken away unless there are other factors involved.