ACLU 'guessed' correctly about police spying subjects

In trying to collect information about a defunct Maryland State Police surveillance operation, the American Civil Liberties Union made "wild guesses" about who might be in the agency's criminal intelligence database, naming 250 individuals and 32 groups in a public information request in late September. David Rocah, staff attorney for ACLU of Maryland, said yesterday that those guesses turned out to be "quite prescient," with a 66 percent accuracy rate.

By Julie Bykowicz | julie.bykowicz@baltsun.com

January 6, 2009