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Tennessee: Court Rules Memphis Police Illegally Spied on Activists

HeadlineOct 29, 2018

And in Tennessee, a federal judge has ruled the Memphis Police Department violated an agreement to stop engaging in political surveillance. The ACLU successfully argued in court that Memphis police broke a 1978 consent decree when it set up a phony Facebook profile to surveil activists with Black Lives Matter and other civil rights groups.

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