The Albuquerque Journal recently ran an Op Ed outlining its concerns over proposed House Bill 4. As the Journal points out,the bill may initially sound like a good thing. However, there’s a great deal of concern in the details of the bill, which has been labelled a proposed civil rights law, but really may just be at a great cost to the taxpayer. The bill would abolish what’s called qualified immunity in the state cases as a defense for police officers, teachers and other government workers completing their day-to-day duties. Plaintiffs would no longer have to show that government employees violated constitutional rights when filing lawsuits. These claims are usually settled in federal court, the Journal notes, where they are probably best handled.