The American Civil Liberties Union is looking into the activities of a Michigan State University police officer, who posed as a student in order to infiltrate an anti-sweatshop campus activist group.
The American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. is looking into the activities of a Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. police officer, who posed as a student in order to infiltrate an anti-sweatshop campus activist group. University officials confirmed in April that the undercover officer investigated Students for Economic Justice because of its efforts against those sweatshops which make university-logo clothing. "The ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. takes very seriously any efforts by public agencies to stifle, discourage, or regulate political speech," ACLU chapter president Henry Silverman said in a letter to the university's board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. .
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