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Offer Accepted! Muckrock Offers To Check For Local Police Surveillance Of Social Media

by Razer Ray
Pinning down the police departments, big and small, stalking your feeds.
Join the others who have already offered up their local law enforcement for scrutiny
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Pinning down the police departments, big and small, stalking your feeds
Join the others who have already offered up their local law enforcement for scrutiny

Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by JPat Brown

Following Twitter’s announcement last week that the social media giant would be joining Facebook and Instagram in restricting its data from Geofeedia, MuckRock asked you to turn an eye to your local police department’s social media surveillance policies.

Since then, over 20 of you, from coast-to-coast, have taken the charge to bring greater transparency to the ways law enforcement is monitoring your Newsfeed.

Follow the requests in the map below:
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