Holding Phone Companies Accountable
The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a complaint on May 24, 2006, against several phone companies; one company, InfoHighway Communications, denied sharing information with the NSA. On July 16, 2006, a judge dismissed the complaint. The ACLU is appealing the decision.
Demanding the Truth About Spying on Peaceful Protestors
These organizations have joined the ACLU in filing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents on surveillance of group activities:
- Coalition for Immigrants’ Rights at the Community Level
- Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern
- Lake Erie Regional Conservancy
- Erie County Environmental Coalition
- Allegheny Defense Project
- Bread and Roses Community Fund
- Thomas Merton Center
- York County Community Against Racism
- American Friends Service Committee
