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| Court rules in favor of NYPD in Muslim surveillance case |
| 2018-03-30 |
| [Ynet] The New York Police Department can use a Cold War-era legal tactic to conceal whether it put two Moslem men under surveillance, the state's highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals, in a split 4-3 decision, ruled that the NYPD was in its rights to decline acknowledging whether records existed pertaining to possible surveillance of a Talib Abdur-Rashid, a Manhatta holy man, and Samir Hashmi, a former Rutgers University student. In 2012, the two men filed separate Freedom of Information Law requests seeking any records the NYPD had relating to surveillance or an investigation. The NYPD responded by saying it could "neither confirm nor deny" the records even existed. The men sued the NYPD separately in lawsuits prompted by a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning stories by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on NYPD surveillance of Moslem groups in New York and New Jersey after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. After moving through lower courts, the two cases were combined for the Court of Appeals case. |
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