Attorneys for the ACLU are filing a lawsuit on behalf of a citizen whose house was raided because he created a parody account of the mayor of Peoria, Illinois.

Harvey Grossman, the legal director for the Illinois chapter of the ACLU, said that Peoria's "city fathers need a lesson," noting tat the case of Jon Daniel, a private citizen who created a parody Twitter account of Peoria's mayor and had his house raided as a result "did not require a constitutional scholar."

As the Peoria Journal Star reported, prior to having his house raided on April 15th, Daniel created an account spoofing the job of Peoria mayor Jim Ardis:

Daniel created the @peoriamayor Twitter account in March using a photo of Ardis and tweeted about sex, drugs and a profane pride in the city of Peoria. City officials noticed it almost immediately and took measures to shut it down, from threatening Twitter with a lawsuit to applying a misdemeanor charge of impersonating a public official to the situation to obtain search warrants for the account and, ultimately, Daniel’s home at 1220 N. University St.

Police would seize several things from Daniel's home during the raid, though Daniel himself would never be charged.