Groups Monitoring Implementation of Anti-Terrorism Measures
Department of Justice Inspector General. Under a special section in the USA Patriot Act, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice has designated an official to review information and receive complaints alleging abuses of civil rights and civil liberties by Department of Justice employees. More
Amnesty International USA - holding public hearings on racial profiling in September and October 2003. The Congressional-style hearings will be open to the public, including the media. The hearings will examine racial profiling at the local level, the federal level, and by airport security. Invited victims, victim advocates, national experts, and law enforcement will testify during each section before a panel of local and national experts. Written testimony will be accepted prior to and at each event. Fill out this online form if you would like to tell AI your experience with racial profiling or refer a witness to testify at these public hearings.
The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has links and advice on how to file complaints about discrimination in housing, air travel, and employment, as well as reporting of hate crimes http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=288
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee: A grass-roots movement has emerged to push for repeal of various aspects of the PATRIOT Act and to encourage city councils and other local officials to uphold constitutional rights by ensuring that police and other local authorities do not cooperate with counter-productive federal dragnets and snooping. Organized out of Northhampton, Massachusetts, this group's website offers a wealth of information and links to the increasing number of communities that have passed or are now considering local resolutions on security and freedom.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University: publishes information on FBI enforcement, staffing, and electronic surveillance, including a special report focusing on terrorism enforcement by all government agencies since 9/11. http://trac.syr.edu Further information about what the government is doing about terrorism - and data on the criminal and civil enforcement of all other areas of the law along with detailed staffing records - is available through TRAC's web site called TRACFED. http://tracfed.syr.edu
Project on Government Secrecy. The Project on Government Secrecy sponsored by the Federation of American Scientists and headed by Steve Aftergood is the leading watchdog on government secrecy. Aftergood publishes a regular newsletter, Secrecy News, which is the source for information on the government's efforts to deny the public access to government iformation. To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, send email to [email protected] with this command in the body of the message: subscribe secrecy_news OR email your request to [email protected]. Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html Voluminous and authoritative resources are online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
Solidarity USA is compiling information on detainment, racial profiling, mistreatment of detainees, and abuse of human rights and civil liberties. It is specifically focusing on documenting cases where inmates have been physically abused, mistreated, denied legal and civil rights. It is also searching to gather information on specific cases where individuals have been mistakenly accused by the law enforcement of having links to the terrorist attacks of Sept 11th.
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