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DENVER (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union demanded Wednesday that Denver police prove they are not using officers assigned to counterterrorism duties to spy on activists.
FBI documents obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act suggest Denver officers assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force might have been gathering such information as recently as December, said Mark Silverstein, legal director for the Colorado ACLU.
That would violate an agreement the city made to settle an ACLU lawsuit over "spy files" that police had gathered for decades on political activists. Police agreed not to gather such information unless there was legitimate suspicion of criminal activity.
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