Fusion center in California refuses to accept public records request, slams door in activists’ faces
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WHAT: Protest against fusion centers
WHERE: Behind the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) at One Schroeder Plaza, Roxbury, MA (On the grass behind the police station, on the Southwest Corridor Park, very close to the Ruggles stop on the Orange line)
WHEN: April 10, 2PM
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by Nashwa Gewaily, ACLU of Massachusetts fellow
Do we need so-called intelligence fusion centers? A senate subcommittee for investigations report published in 2012 pointed out that the centers are extremely costly, duplicative of other federal-local intelligence and terrorism efforts, and have been shown to infringe on civil liberties.
The Arkansas State Fusion Center
An official from an Arkansas State Fusion Center recently spoke to the press to clear up what he called "misconceptions" about what his office actually does, with depressingly hilarious results. (For some background on fusion centers, click here.)
CrossMatch, a large biometrics firm that does millions of dollars of business with government agencies, has announced that the executive director of the National Fusion Center Association, a former DHS Grant Programs Directorate administrator, recently became an advisor to its board of directors.