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After student protester sued UC Santa Cruz, campus police seized her phone

Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the full article here.

A UC Santa Cruz student and pro-Palestinian activist whose cell phone was seized by campus police — while she was standing outside her dorm in her pajamas during a fire drill — filed court papers Wednesday saying the university is violating her rights to privacy and free speech.

“When police seize a student’s phone while she is outside in her pajamas for a fire drill, in view of numerous other students, we cannot help but think they are trying to intimidate her and other students from engaging in pro-Palestine protest on campus,” said another attorney in the case, Rachel Lederman of the Center for Protest Law & Litigation.