State AG questions undercover investigation of peace group (Peace Fresno)

[Newsjock]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20060210-1645-ca-policesurveillance.html

FRESNO – The Fresno County Sheriff's decision to send an undercover deputy to the meetings of a peace organization raised “serious concerns” with the state attorney general, a spokesman said Friday.

The detective began attending Peace Fresno meetings in 2003. The attorney general's office began investigating the decision in April 2004, when Peace Fresno discovered the his identity and complained to the American Civil Liberties Union.

“We are in active discussions with the sheriff's department about resolving our concerns,” said the attorney general's spokesman Nathan Barankin. He explained that there were particular concerns about the “policies that led to the decision to investigate Peace Fresno in an undercover capacity, and the tension between what they did and the privacy rights guaranteed to Californians.”

[f-bush]

1. As I've said, we live in the Fourth Reich!!!

[Ignacio Upton]

2. That group was listed in F-9/11

This post-9/11 idiocy has people getting upset over groups of people who just like to eat cookies and talk.

[fed-up]

3. Almost TWO years is a LONG time for an "investigation" n/t

[NVMojo]

4. yeah, they were the brownie and cookie eating peace luvin' group

in "Farenheit 9-11". What took them so long to investigate this?