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Title: American Civil Liberties Union : CO Springs Police Conducted Surveillance for Denver Spy Files, ACLU Reveals
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CO Springs Police Conducted Surveillance for Denver Spy Files, ACLU Reveals
November 21, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDENVER--The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado today released documents revealing that the Colorado Springs Police department spied on peaceful critics of government policy and sent its information directly to the Denver Police Department for its controversial "spy files.""Earlier this year we learned that individuals could not attend a peaceful rally in Denver without fear that their names would wind up in a criminal intelligence file," said Mark Silverstein, Legal Director of the ACLU of Colorado. "Now it appears that peaceful protesters in Colorado Springs are subject to the same kind of illegitimate political surveillance.""At a time when the Pentagon is proposing an Orwellian data-mining program to track the most intimate details of our lives, how many more Colorado cities are keeping files on peaceful protest activities that have absolutely no connection to criminal activity?"Last March, the ACLU disclosed that Denver police were monitoring peaceful rallies, conducting surveillance of peaceful protest activities, and keeping criminal intelligence files on the free speech activities of law-abiding advocacy organizations, in some cases branding them falsely in the files as "criminal extremist." An ACLU class-action
