The ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act Request asked the FBI to reveal its guidelines, internal memos pertaining to what techniques it uses when it tracks citizens and under what circumstances they track people. The Justice Department's response was 100 pages of completely redacted material. Citizens are coming forward to report they are being surveilled and subjected to unremitting harassment, often for years, by first responders and citizen vigilantes in a new COINTELPRO-like program. Because the Justice Department/the FBI will not reveal how, when, and why it can track citizens and reports of abuse as outlined above abound all over the country, we are requesting the Inspector General for the Justice Department to launch an investigation into what techniques are being used to track citizens, who is involved in the tracking of citizens, how long citizens are being tracked, when and why, and under what circumstances citizens are tracked by GPS and other types of techniques.

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