"At the center of the Portland controversy was the City Council's insistence that renewal of the JTTF be contingent upon the FBI granting the Mayor and City Attorney security clearances equal to those given Portland police assigned to the task force...
While the first JTTF dates back to 1980, the FBI's website indicates that the "number of task forces has nearly doubled since September 11, 2001," and nationwide, they now number sixty six...
Since 1981, however, Oregon law has barred police-INS collaboration and police surveillance in the absence of evidence of criminal activity."

Constitutional Democracy as a Protection against Internal Hostilities

I beg you on behalf of myself and God, please!

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The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees voted in favor (4 to 3) of a resolution to increase student and family awareness of the OPT-OUT choice parents have to deny military recruiters access to private student information.