muslim spying

Lawyers for New York City on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by New Jersey Muslims over its police-run surveillance program.

A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying incriminating things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press.

Today, the full Assembly passed a bill that would require out-of-state law enforcement to properly notify law enforcement officials in New Jersey of intended counter-terrorism investigations in the state.

The head of the FBI in New Jersey said Wednesday that some of the covert operations by the New York Police Department's intelligence division have damaged the public's trust in New Jersey law enforcement, though he emphasized that his agency has an overall good working relationship with the NYPD.

The political battle over what the New York Police Department (NYPD) did or did not tell New Jersey officials about their surveillance of Muslims in the Garden State rages on.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is asking federal authorities to investigate the New York Police Department's surveillance of New Jersey's Muslim communities.