SEATTLE—The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleges that campus police at the University of Washington (UW) wrongly monitored the UW Student Worker Coalition (SWC).
The advocacy group and SWC members claim that a UW officer spied on the group by posing as an activist during an April meeting where the SWC was planning a rally to support funding for higher education, according to MYNorthwest.com.
The ACLU distributed E-mails, obtained through public disclosure, indicating that the UW Police authorized an undercover surveillance to gather information for a May 3 strike.
The group began researching how UW Police monitored political and religious groups after Evergreen State graduate Phillip Chinn, who was arrested for driving under the influence of marijuana on his way to an anti-war demonstration, despite passing a portable breath-alcohol test. Chinn was recently awarded more that $400,000 for his troubles.
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