By Julia Bertino
Feb 25, 2021
(Undated) The City of Omaha is responding to claims from the ACLU of Nebraska that Omaha Police ran surveillance on black activists during last summer s civil unrest.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska wrote a letter to Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer asking what kind of surveillance had been used against Black Lives Matter activists in the Omaha metro. In part, the letter sought to find out, the extent and utility of Omaha Police Department surveillance of residents active in the racial justice movement.
The ACLU says they, through public records requests, OPD emails from last year that named local activists who have been involved in social justice movements and BLM demonstrations. The ACLU accuses the Omaha Police Department of running surveillance on the activists based on their causes, rather than based upon reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct.
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