{"id":72150,"date":"2017-03-31T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=72150"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T20:41:20","slug":"florida-police-department-used-social-media-to-spy-on-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/florida-police-department-used-social-media-to-spy-on-protestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Police Department Used Social Media to &#8216;Spy&#8217; on Protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72152\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BLM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-police-department-used-social-media-to-spy-on-protestors\" title=\"Florida Police Department Used Social Media to 'Spy' on Protestors\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72152\" title=\"Florida Police Department Used Social Media to 'Spy' on Protestors\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BLM-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Florida Police Department Used Social Media to 'Spy' on Protestors\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BLM-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BLM-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BLM.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/news\/national\/wells-fargo-rejects-request-for-black-lives-matter-debit-card\/Y9xDrHufQrZLyTIsxF3H1M\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-police-department-used-social-media-to-spy-on-protestors\" title=\"Florida Police Department Used Social Media to 'Spy' on Protestors\">WOKV<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The NSA\u2019s monitoring of private email and phone messages has been the cause of much debate in recent years. But what about the growing number of local law enforcement agencies that monitor social media to obtain information on the people in their jurisdictions?<\/p>\n<p>Taking the practice a step further, some police departments have even begun using social media posts to monitor private citizens participating in lawful activities.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the situation in Jacksonville, Florida, according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/florida\/public-safety\/2017-03-17\/monitoring-dissent-how-jacksonville-sheriff-s-office-spied\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"florida-police-department-used-social-media-to-spy-on-protestors\" title=\"Florida Police Department Used Social Media to 'Spy' on Protestors\">Florida Times-Union<\/a> report. The report revealed that for several years the Jacksonville Sherriff\u2019s Office used a social media data collection service called Geofeedia to track and monitor peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n<p>There are legitimate uses of such services by law enforcement, but, according to documents obtained by the Times-Union, Jacksonville law enforcement set up alerts about First Amendment-protected activity by residents not accused of any crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The Sherriff\u2019s Office configured Geofeedia to notify the Crime Analysis Unit when the program located certain keywords like \u201cpolice,\u201d \u201crally,\u201d and \u201c#blacklivesmatter\u201d in social media posts within a specific geographical area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like they designed their alerts to give civil libertarians a heart attack,\u201d said Rachel Levinson-Waldman, senior counsel at the Brennan Center\u2019s Liberty and National Security program, after reviewing the public records obtained by the Times-Union.<\/p>\n<p>The Sherriff\u2019s Office told the Times-Union that they have cancelled their contract with Geofeedia, but they didn\u2019t say whether or not they still monitor social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts use was discontinued by this agency when it was determined that the cost\/benefit was not satisfactory,\u201d Lauri-Ellen Smith, senior spokeswoman for the Sheriff\u2019s Office, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to understand why such monitoring might make Jacksonville residents uncomfortable, but is it illegal?<\/p>\n<p>There are currently no Florida laws that ban the use of such tactics, but Levinson-Waldman told the Times-Union that monitoring protected free speech may be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Social media surveillance of protesters has the potential to violate their First Amendment rights if it \u201ctangibly chills\u201d them from continuing to participate in that activity, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Third Circuit Court of Appeals\u2019 ruled in October 2015, for example, that the New York Police Department\u2019s monitoring of Muslim communities in New York and New Jersey may have violated the First Amendment in that it inhibited people from continuing to attend their mosques.<\/p>\n<p>Still, monitoring social media can be a viable and effective tool for law enforcement, as long as it\u2019s utilized in the appropriate manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trick is, like any tool, it gets abused,\u201d said Kalev Leetaru, a senior George Washington University fellow who studies how data changes societies. \u201cThere are definitely abuses of these technologies in really bad ways, so that\u2019s what people fixate on and forget there are law enforcement agencies using these tools in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like they designed their alerts to give civil libertarians a heart attack,\u201d said Rachel Levinson-Waldman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":72152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,593],"tags":[132,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Florida Police Department Used Social Media to &#039;Spy&#039; 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