From the Rogue Valley Times:
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Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Medford Police Department alleging "unlawful police surveillance."
That same week, lawyers representing the Oregon Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit surrounding the legality of a law enforcement data clearinghouse known as Oregon Project TITAN.
The TITAN lawsuit, first filed nearly three years ago by the NYU School of Law's Policing Project on behalf of former Jordan Cove pipeline protesters, alleges that demonstrators' rights were violated by an "unauthorized and unaccountable domestic intelligence program." The protestors included former Phoenix City Councilor Sarah Westover and environmental groups such as Rogue Climate…
Both involve claims of "spying" on progressive organizations and left-leaning demonstrations, and claims that the two agencies collected, retained and analyzed information about law-abiding individuals — the DOJ through its Project TITAN criminal information clearinghouse shared with agencies that include the Coos County Sheriff's Office, the public relations team of Canadian energy company Pembina which backed the project, and Medford police through alleged "dossiers" with information compiled by crime analysts using fake social media accounts…