Lawsuit challenges Suspicious Activity Reporting’s surveillance, racial and religious profiling of innocent Americans
July 10, 2014
Today, Advancing Justice-ALC filed a federal lawsuit to challenge a domestic surveillance program called Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) with the ACLU and Bingham McCutchen LLP. The SAR program turns local police departments and even private citizens into the “eyes and ears” of the federal government by encouraging them to report supposedly “suspicious” activities to local fusion centers, which investigate the reports and determine whether to share them with law enforcement agencies around the country.