The NYPD has a well-documented record of spying on law-abiding Muslims, and yet refuses to acknowledge even the existence of information that relates to its controversial surveillance program. Read more..http://gothamist.com/2016/06/03/nypd_spies_like_not_us.php
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The Paramus man was denied, but the response differed from the replies sent by the New York Police Department to other Muslims he knew who also requested surveillance documents. They got letters that police had no such records, while Hashmi got lengthier responses that detailed why police couldn’t supply him with records. Hashmi said it
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Islamic groups are taking the police department to court over alleged cases of Muslim surveillance. NY1’s Dean Meminger spoke with two men who say officers unlawfully spied on them. He filed the following report. Members of the Muslim community want to know what the New York City Police Department knows about them . “We have
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OTMLAW represents both Mr. Talib W. Abdur-Rashid and Samir Hashmi in the matter of Abdur Rashid v. NYPD and Hashmi v. NYPD. The two judges presiding over the cases reached conflicting decisions regarding the NYPD’s assertion of Glomar theory in response to the two men’s FOIL (Freedom of Information Law) requests. Oral argument on both cases
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Talib Abdur Rashid and Samir Hashmi say police denied them access to their own files, claiming the documents are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information law. In separate actions filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the men said the department’s denial was illegal because it did not provide a detailed, specific justification for the
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