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...CLUM Concerned...
...suit strikes at the use of various photographic and electronic devices for obtaining information and photographs of constitutionally protected political activities and participants," the CLUM statement said...
...CLUM chairman Roy Hammer said that the suit was part of an American Civil Liberties Union drive to inform citizens of the surveillance techniques used by various agencies of government and to limit the use of these procedures. The police chief and the department have thus far declined comment on the case...
Recent testimony before. Senator Sam Ervin's committee investigating surveillance by civilian and military spies has indicated the magnitude of the threat posed by such activities to political activists of all sorts. The CLUM suit is important because it attacks surveillance by a local police force. Local political spying can be especially threatening, as the cases of Hornsby and Yaffe show...
Matthew Feinberg, staff counsel for the CLUM, said he could not predict precisely when further action on the case would come. He explained that no action could be taken until the U.S. Marshal served the complaint to the defendants, a procedure which normally takes no more than ten days. Once the complaint is served, the defendants have 20 days to respond...