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Civil‑rights groups urge Police Commission review after new SFPD–FBI MOU
Summary
ACLU, Asian Law Caucus and CAIR speakers told the Police Commission the memorandum of understanding between the SFPD and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force appears to remove local safeguards required by SFPD General Order 8.1(o). Commissioners and department leaders agreed to schedule a joint hearing with the Human Rights Commission to review the MOU and community concerns.
The ACLU and local civil‑rights groups asked the San Francisco Police Commission on April 6 to review a newly released memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, saying the agreement appears to lessen local oversight and conflict with SFPD policy.
John Crewe, who identified himself as an ACLU affiliate, said the MOU released two days earlier “shows, from our point of view, the opposite” of earlier assurances that SFPD officers assigned to the JTTF would remain subject to General…
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