NYPD muslim surveillance

A federal judge has ruled that the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey was a lawful effort to prevent terrorism, not a civil rights violation.

New York City's law department says police intelligence-gathering tactics in Muslim communities is legal.

A New Jersey Senate committee has advanced a bill that would require out-of-state law enforcement agencies to notify state officials if they want to conduct counterterrorism surveillance operations here.

State law enforcement officials in New Jersey have continued their outreach to Muslim leaders.

The New York Police Department is defending itself in a federal civil rights lawsuit over its surveillance of Muslims. It says in a new court filing that nothing it has done violated surveillance guidelines imposed by a federal judge in a previous case.

Civil rights lawyers urged a judge Monday to stop the New York Police Department from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstores and mosques, saying the practice violates a landmark 1985 court settlement that restricted the kind of surveillance used against war protesters in the 1960s and '70s.

New Jersey Muslims who have sued New York City over its police-run surveillance of Muslims say the city's request that the lawsuit be dismissed is without merit.

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.

One phone call from a building superintendent at an apartment complex near the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick led to a chain reaction fo revelations that let the entire world know that the New York Police Department (NYPD) was secretly spying on Muslims groups not only in the college town, but elsewhere in New Jersey too.

The Associated Press has sued a New Jersey police department over information stemming from a New York Police Department spying effort against Muslims.