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Atlanta Police Monitoring of 'Cop City' Opponents' Political Activity
The documents show inappropriate police surveillance of social media posts about pizza nights and study groups.
Over 2,300 pages of internal intelligence reports and emails demonstrate how broadly the Atlanta Police Department has monitored residents engaged in ordinary activities used by political groups of all stripes. Atlanta law enforcement’s social media surveillance targeted opponents of the construction of a police training facility that activists call “Cop City.” The Brennan Center obtained the documents, available here, through a public records act request. The Atlanta police department’s overreach is unsurprising in light of the fact that the agency’s policy governing officers’ use of social media includes no protections for constitutional rights, inviting fishing expeditions of the kind these documents evidence.
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