ACLU .. Seeks Information About .. Surveillance of University Organization

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ACLU of Northern California Seeks Information About Undercover Surveillance of University Organizations

April 27, 2005




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Fresno State University Students Go On Hunger Strike to Protest Infiltration of Animal Rights Lecture

FRESNO, CA -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and a Fresno State University student group today filed requests with the local sheriff’s department and the FBI after university officials disclosed that several plainclothes police officers were present at a student-sponsored lecture last fall. The sheriff’s department is currently under investigation following disclosures that it infiltrated an anti-war group in 2003.

Last November, the student organization, Campus Peace and Civil Liberties, sponsored an on-campus lecture and discussion by Gary Yourofsky, a nationally renowned animal rights lecturer. Several months later, university administrators revealed that members of the law enforcement intelligence community attended the lecture in plainclothes. Since then, university president John Welty has confirmed that six undercover law enforcement agents attended the event. <snip>

http://www.aclu.org/PolicePractices/PolicePractices.cfm?ID=18151&c=120


Whoa! Them anti-vivisectionists is some purty darn scary terraists!