Maryland State Police Superintendent 'Troubled' By Methods Used To Probe Activists
Julie Bykowicz writes in The Baltimore Sun:
The Maryland State Police superintendent said today that he is "troubled" by methods used to infiltrate and monitor peace activists and anti-death penalty groups and pledged that such tactics "will not be a part" of his agency.More here.
Undercover agents secretly joined the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, a peace group; the Baltimore Coalition Against the Death Penalty; and the Committee to Save Vernon Evans, a death row inmate, according to documents that ACLU obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act lawsuit.
The agents spent 288 hours monitoring and recording peaceful protest activities and recorded no evidence of potentially illegal activity, the documents show.
posted by Fergie @ 7/25/2008 05:44:00 PM
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