NYCLU Files Suit Against NYPD
The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a suit against the New York City Police Department for refusing to disclose how they intend to use about 3000 surveillance cameras to be installed in lower Manhattan to track pedestrians and automobiles. When the NYCLU first filed a freedom of information act to have the intent disclosed they recieved 91 pages of documents, which still doesn’t clearly state the intent or usage.
The executive director of the ACLU says a plan of this scope, cost and intrusiveness requires a public debate and oversight by legislators.
The NYCLU claims the plan poses a threat to the privacy of law-abiding New Yorkers. Police officials say the system, modeled after “ring of steel” measures in London’s financial district, is needed to guard against terrorist threats.
An NYPD spokesman said Monday that the department already has made public as much information as it could, short of “a road map terrorists could use for another attack.
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