Occupy – DHS Documents #1
This is Part 1 of FOIA documents exposing law enforcement’s surveillance of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Click to download the document:
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Occupy – ATF Documents #1
This is part 1 of FOIA documents exposing that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spied on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Read…
FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its…
Occupy – FBI Documents
FBI documents obtained by the PCJF pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act reveal the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and…
Revealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy
Totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent Reprinted from The Guardian It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on…
FBI Considered Occupy Movement Potential Threat, Documents Say
Reprinted from CNN New York (CNN) — The FBI extensively monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement around the United States, using counterterrorism agents and other resources, according…
F.B.I. Counterterrorism Agents Monitored Occupy Movement, Records Show
Reprinted from The New York Times The Federal Bureau of Investigation used counterterrorism agents to investigate the Occupy Wall Street movement, including its communications and planning,…
Just Because You Are Paranoid Doesn’t Mean the FBI Wasn’t Monitoring You
Occupy Wall Street Edition Reprinted from New York Observer It turns out that all you crazy, post-hippy Occupy Wall Streeters were right: the government does not…
Forcing Disclosure of the General and Special Orders of the MPD
For years, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) secretly operated under a set of general and special orders which it refused to make public or provide to civil rights organizations and lawyers. The PCJF filed suit to disgorge this large body of material that the MPD sought to conceal from the public. After hard-fought litigation in which the MPD’s attorneys at the OAG fought disclosure, the PCJF succeeded in forcing these orders to be revealed to the public with a landmark ruling which pulled back the MPD’s veil of secrecy.
Read MoreForcing Disclosure of the General and Special Orders of the MPDPCJF Obtains More Heavily Redacted Documents on OWS from Homeland Security
Homeland Security releases third round of documents to PCJF Last Updated: July 31, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has obtained…
Gray presses ahead with open records changes
Reprinted from The Examiner The District’s top lawyer on Wednesday said Mayor Vincent Gray’s push to make public document disclosure laws more favorable to the government had…
NYPD Disorder Control Guidelines
These guidelines, posted in 2012, lay out the New York Police Department’s strategies and policies for civil disturbances. Document is available for viewing below: