BRIGHTON,Colo. - A local Nazi group says it's helping tackle Colorado's highway trash problem by adopting a section of road to keep clean.

Along Highway 85, the Chapter of the National Socialist Movement, which calls itself America's Nazi Party, is participating in a state Adopt-A-Highway program - complete with a road sign.

The white supremacist group will be responsible for picking up trash on a one-mile stretch of the road.  The Colorado Department of Transportation says it allowed the highway adoption because the group's lawyers say it could violate free speech if they denied the request.

"Our initial inclination was to deny their application, then we got legal guidance," Stacey Stegman, a department spokeswoman, said. "We looked at what has gone on in other states. We talked with the Anti-Defamation League and found out that we really had no ground to deny them.

"We were considering denying them based on the fact that there could be a potential for violence, not that there was," Stegman continued.  "And so right now, we are giving them the benefit of the doubt."

Cpl. Neal Land, a spokesman for the movement, says his group stands for "white rights" and "purity of race" and should be allowed to clean  the highway.

"Definitely, I want people to know we're in the state, we're active in this state, and most of all, we're doing good things in this state, "Land said. "We're not a group that's out there selling drugs, running guns. We don't support any illegal activity of any sort."

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