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Sun Feb 5 2006
Key Documents Detailing Santa Cruz Police Spying Now Available Online
Santa Cruz Police Department Files on Peaceful Parade Prganizers
Key documents from the ACLU Public Records Act request are available in pdf form.

In response to an ACLU Public Records Act request, the Santa Cruz Police Department has produced over 200 pages relating to their undercover infiltration of a peaceful New's Year's parade group known as Last Night Santa Cruz. Though the documents produced were incomplete in relation to the Public Records Act request, they portray a department with little concern for the privacy rights of peaceful community members and a seeming disdain for the use of diplomacy as an investigation technique. Read more

see also: SCPD Police Spying Scandal - deputy chief leads investigation

For more information on the Santa Cruz Police Department spying on peaceful community groups, see previous SC-IMC coverage: Council votes to continue to do nothing about spying (again) || "Just Us" Action Against SCPD Spying || Police Infiltrate Peaceful Parade Organizers
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