Governor Purges Database of Innocents Stopped and Frisked by NYPD (rawstory.com)
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ACLU of New York
July 16, 2010 12:00 am
NY Civil Liberties Union efforts to expose abusive NYPD stop and frisk practices compel reform. NY State legislature passes law requiring NYPD to purge information about hundreds of thousands of innocent people stopped under this program from law enforcement databases.
More: “Governor purges database of innocents stopped and frisked by NYPD” – http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0716/ny-governor-signs-law-limiting-stopfrisk-database/
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