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University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations
Outcry after report that private investigators had been trailing and recording pro-Palestinian protesters for months
“We recently learned that an employee of one of our security contractors has acted in ways that go against our values and directives,” the U-M president, Domenico Grasso, wrote in an email to students and faculty on Sunday night. The university, which has taken a particularly heavy-handed approach to suppressing student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, paid at least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to City Shield’s parent company, Ameri-Shield. Katarina Keating, a PhD student who was being followed, said she welcomed the news and called it a “step in the right direction”, but added that it was “insulting” for the university to say pro-Palestinian groups were not targeted for their beliefs or affiliations.
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