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Fbi Using Racial, Ethnic Profiling To Snoop On Us Citizens, Aclu Charges

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In 2010, 34 ACLU affiliates filed coordinated FOIA requests with their local FBI field offices to uncover records showing how the FBI has used its racial and ethnic profiling authority under the Guidance on Race and the DIOG.  

 

The ACLU is calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to:

 

Enforce the Guidance on Race's prohibition against the use of race to "any degree" in law enforcement investigations;

 

Amend the Guidance on Race to prohibit racial and ethnic profiling without any exceptions, and to add religion and national origin to the barred profiling criteria; and

 

Ensure the FBI amends the DIOG to incorporate existing prohibitions on the use of race and ethnicity in FBI investigations, and to incorporate the above amendments to the Guidance on Race.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now (more...)
 
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