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Tag: civil rights

Civil rights group sues the federal government over the surveillance of black activists

Posted on October 24, 2016

It's no longer a secret that police have conducted surveillance on activists involved in the Movement for Black Lives. Increasingly, these activists say they want to know exactly what's in the files the government may be keeping on them.

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Tagged civil rights, Color of Change, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), freedom of information act (FOIA)

Paper wins FOIA fight with FBI

Posted on February 3, 2012

From Politico.com:

A Memphis newspaper won a round Tuesday in its battle for access to the FBI's files on a famous civil rights era photographer who reportedly spied on top civil rights leaders for the agency in the 1960s.

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Tagged civil rights, FBI, FOIA lawsuit, informants, transparency

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