Muslim Protesters Call for an End to Surveillance
Hundreds of Muslims and supporters gathered in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square Friday to speak out against alleged police surveillance in their communities.Many were college students who said they’ve...
View ArticleNYC Defends Monitoring of Muslims, Says It Was Legal
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly offered robust defense of a secret police department effort to monitor mosques and Muslim businesses and student groups in other states amid...
View ArticleWhite House Helps Pay for NYPD Muslim Surveillance
The Obama administration said Monday it has no control over how the New York Police Department spends millions of dollars in White House grants that helped pay for NYPD programs that put entire...
View ArticleMuslims Say NYPD Surveillance Is Already Changing Behavior
Reports of the NYPD’s surveillance program targeting Muslim student groups, businesses and mosques across the region have provoked outrage, even as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials have...
View ArticleNJ AG to Host 1st Meeting of Muslim Task Force
New Jersey's attorney general is hosting the first meeting of a task force he created in the wake of revelations that the NYPD was conducting surveillance of New Jersey Muslims.Attorney General Jeffrey...
View ArticleNJ AG Holds First Muslim Outreach Meeting
New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa met with Muslim leaders on Wednesday in Newark as part of a Muslim Outreach Committee set up in the wake of the news that the NYPD had surveilled Muslim...
View ArticleMuslim New Yorkers Sue over NYPD Surveillance
A group of Muslim New Yorkers is suing the NYPD over police surveillance in mosques and Muslim organizations. The federal lawsuit alleges that the NYPD violated the constitution by targeting...
View ArticleMuslim Protesters Call for an End to Surveillance
Hundreds of Muslims and supporters gathered in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square Friday to speak out against alleged police surveillance in their communities.Many were college students who said they’ve...
View ArticleNYC Defends Monitoring of Muslims, Says It Was Legal
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly offered robust defense of a secret police department effort to monitor mosques and Muslim businesses and student groups in other states amid...
View ArticleMuslims Say NYPD Surveillance Is Already Changing Behavior
Reports of the NYPD’s surveillance program targeting Muslim student groups, businesses and mosques across the region have provoked outrage, even as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials have...
View ArticleNYPD Terrorism Commissioner Says Protecting City Requires "Balance"
A story recently published by the online news site Gothamist about an undercover police officer who allegedly infiltrated a group of law-abiding Muslim students at Brooklyn College is raising questions...
View ArticleNYPD Moves To Settle Lawsuits Over Muslim Surveillance
In 2013, two separate lawsuits accused the NYPD of blanket surveillance of Muslims that violated the constitution and a consent decree that sprang from the department's surveillance of anti-war and...
View ArticleNYPD Surveillance Settlement Was 40 Years in the Making
The NYPD has settled two lawsuits stemming from its surveillance of Muslims after 9/11. Under the agreement, police will be barred from investigating groups based on race, religion or ethnicity. It...
View ArticleNYPD Ignores Some Rules on Political Spying
The New York City Police Department has guidelines to ensure its investigations of political activity don't violate constitutional rights. But a new report by the NYPD Inspector General says the...
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