Common Contracts
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The Handschu agreement & NYPD SurveillanceJuly 19th, 2019
In 1971, Barbara Handschu and other plaintiffs brought a class action lawsuit against the NYPD, challenging the NYPD surveillance tactics. Plaintiffs objected to the NYPD’s maintenance of dossiers on activists and its undercover infiltration of political organizations. A 1985 settlement and consent decree restricted NYPD surveillance and created the Handschu Committee, a panel overseeing covert NYPD surveillance operations.1 The Handschu agreement mandates that undercover personnel be qualified with “fact-specific” reasons for their necessity.2 The Handschu agreement prohibits the NYPD from targeting suspect for their political preferences.3
