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Sun Mar 23 2003
SFPD Breaks Rules by Spying on Political Dissidents
Police Spies in San Francisco
A confidential police memo, part of a dossier obtained under the Sunshine Ordinance, acknowledges the SF Police Department has been monitoring this web site, using undercover officers to spy on antiwar protesters, and apparently collecting personal information about political dissidents, the Bay Guardian has learned. The internal SFPD documents and a new audit performed by the city's police watchdog agency, the Office of Citizen Complaints, indicate the department has been gathering intelligence on the militant wing of the antiwar movement since last fall. The documents suggest some SFPD commanders may have orchestrated a secret spying program without the knowledge of top police officials, which violates the department's own rules. Full Story | Confidential Police Documents |
Special Operations Bureau and Spying At March 15 Protest | Spying Last Year At May Day Protest In East Bay
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Protest in San Francisco Demands TPS Protection for Haitians
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| Immigrant Rights2026-01-20
Convict Killer ICE Agent Jonathan Ross
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| Santa Cruz Indymedia2026-01-15
Hundreds of "Free America Walkouts" Were Organized on January 20
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| Anti-War
| Womyn
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| Santa Cruz Indymedia2025-12-24
Advocates Rally at Governor’s Office to Pardon UC Berkeley
Student Zoe Rosenberg
Police State & Prisons
| Education & Student Activism
| Central Valley
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| North Bay / Marin
| California
| Government & Elections
| Animal Liberation2025-12-23
Our Faiths Teach Us: Love Thy Neighbor, Disrupt Injustice
Police State & Prisons
| San Francisco
| California
| Americas2025-12-16
There's Nothing More Despicable and Dangerous Than a Mercenary
Anti-War
| California
| U.S.
| Americas2025-11-16
"People Over Billionaires" March Tours San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood
Health, Housing & Public Services
| Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism
| San Francisco2025-11-15
First Day of Starbucks Strike Shuts Down Stores in Santa Cruz
Labor & Workers
| Peninsula
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| Santa Cruz Indymedia2025-11-11
Gay Shame Organizes Costume March to ICE Courthouse in San Francisco
Racial Justice
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| Americas2025-11-11
Remembering the Armed Occupation that Protected the Ohlone Burial Site on Lee Road
Environment & Forest Defense
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| Santa Cruz Indymedia2025-11-05
Report from Department of Pesticide Regulation Underestimates Cancer Risks
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