CAIR-NY, the Muslim Community Network, the Association of Muslim-American Lawyers, and the New York Coalition Against Islamophobia call on Mayor de Blasio to order the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) to comply with New York State’s Freedom of Information-Law (“FOIL”) and to stop giving “Glomar responses” to questions about unlawful surveillance. In recent years, the NYPD has increasingly relied on “Glomar responses”—the CIA tactic of neither confirming nor denying information’s existence—when questioned about its unlawful surveillance of the Muslim community and other activists. Talib Abdur-Rashid and Samir Hashmi have been fighting the NYPD’s responses in a case that is now going to New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. Activists, journalists, and civil libertarians all depend daily on FOIL to investigate police abuses and to act as citizen watchdogs.
Please show your support by signing on to the following petition:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-nypd-to-stop-1
For more info: omohammedi@otmlaw.com
