ANN ARBOR, MI – The Michigan Law School chapter of the ACLU wants University of Michigan to further axe its surveillance efforts of its public spaces.
The group sent a June 11 letter – signed by 800 students, faculty, staff and alumni – to the university urging it to remove surveillance cameras from the Diag and Law Quad.
The call comes days after the university ended its partnership with all private security firms tasked with surveilling campus. The ACLU chapter called it “deeply troubling” to install cameras in the Diag, or “the center of free speech.”…