American Civil Liberties Union
MELBOURNE, FL - The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and six protesters targeted as "persons of interest" by local police today filed public records requests demanding that the Melbourne Police Department and Brevard County Sheriff Office turn over surveillance files kept on demonstrators who attended a counter inaugural protest earlier this year.
"We’ve learned that peaceful protesters in Melbourne can’t attend a rally in Brevard County without fear that their names will wind up in a criminal intelligence file," said Kevin Aplin, Vice President of the ACLU of Florida’s Brevard County Chapter. "Brevard Police need to learn that a public gathering where individuals peacefully criticize government policy is not criminal activity; on the contrary, it is activity that is protected by the United States Constitution."
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