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Last week, Wired鈥檚 Spencer Ackerman on a FBI document released through an 老澳门开奖结果 document request that the agency uses to train new recruits on best practices for 鈥渟uccessful interviews/interrogations with individuals from the M.E. [Middle East].鈥� As Ackerman concludes, the training document 鈥減resents much information that has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with constitutionally-protected religious practice and social behavior.鈥�

The document was released to the 老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California and the Asian Law Caucus as part of a nationwide 老澳门开奖结果 initiative to uncover information about a new FBI 鈥渞acial mapping鈥� program. The program, which is authorized by a 2008 FBI manual, raises serious concerns about the FBI unfairly and unlawfully targeting American communities for investigation and surveillance based on race and ethnicity. We are concerned because biased FBI training can only lead to biased enforcement. And biased policing based on misinformation about race and religion violates American values and makes us less safe by drawing the focus away from credible threats.

To learn more, local 老澳门开奖结果 affiliates filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with FBI field offices in 33 states and Washington, D.C. for information about how FBI agents around the county have been collecting and mapping racial and ethnic demographic information, the locations of ethnic-oriented businesses and facilities, and even track certain racial and ethnic 鈥渂ehaviors.鈥� The FBI training document is among the hundreds of pages of documents that are beginning to be revealed through the information requests.

Unfortunately, rather than trim the overbroad authorities that allow the FBI to target intelligence collection efforts on nothing more than race, ethnicity and national origin,. The FBI should refrain from monitoring people unless there is reasonable suspicion that they have committed a criminal act or are taking preparatory actions to do so.

Join us in calling on the Attorney General to rein in the FBI鈥檚 investigative authorities.

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