{"id":34,"date":"2018-04-05T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/05\/settlement-reached-in-nypd-muslim-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:21:19","slug":"settlement-reached-in-nypd-muslim-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/04\/05\/settlement-reached-in-nypd-muslim-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Reached in NYPD Muslim Surveillance Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York, NY \u2013 Today, a group of Muslim owned businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups have finalized a settlement agreement with the New York Police Department (NYPD) in Hassan v. City of New York, a federal lawsuit challenging the suspicionless, discriminatory surveillance of American Muslims in New Jersey. Filed in 2012 in federal court in New Jersey, Hassan was the first lawsuit brought on behalf of American Muslims unlawfully surveilled under the NYPD\u2019s program. The plaintiffs are represented by Muslim Advocates, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Gibbons P.C.<\/p>\n

As a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning reports by the AP revealed, under the surveillance program, the NYPD spied on at least 20 mosques, 14 restaurants, 11 retail stores, two grade schools, and two Muslim Student Associations in New Jersey. The monitoring included video surveillance, photographing license plates, community mapping, and infiltration by undercover officers and informants at places of worship, student associations, and businesses. Internal NYPD documents, including a list of 28 \u201cancestries of interest,\u201d revealed that the NYPD used racial and ethnic backgrounds as proxies to identify and target adherents to Islam. By its own admission, the NYPD\u2019s surveillance of Muslims failed to produce a single lead.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the settlement<\/a>, the NYPD has confirmed it will reform its discriminatory and unlawful practices by agreeing to:<\/p>\n

– Not engage in suspicionless surveillance on the basis of religion or ethnicity;<\/p>\n

– Permit
\n plaintiff input to a first-ever Policy Guide, which will govern the
\nIntelligence Bureau\u2019s activities, and to publish the Guide to the
\npublic;<\/p>\n

– Attend a public meeting with plaintiffs so they can
\nexpress their concerns about the issues in the lawsuit directly to the
\nNYPD Commissioner or senior ranking official;<\/p>\n

– Pay businesses and
\n mosques damages for income lost as a result of being unfairly targeted
\nby the NYPD and pay individuals damages for the stigma and humiliation
\nharms they suffered for being targeted on the basis of their religion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Settlement Reached in NYPD Muslim Surveillance Lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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