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“ WEEALY BULLETIN #1779 : -3- 00 - @: iaformad the ACLU tat transcrt Mier’ telephcas ; legWPracketeers and other persons were give) the press last eummr_ without, hia: authority or knowledge while ha was abeent sum Mhfladstzbiag He added that, Like the ACIU branch, he regards tha act as a violation of civil libertie While eti1). condemning the release of ths tranecripta, the ACLU cancelied pla to ask Attornay Ceneral Herbert Brownell if the release violated the Federal Conm cations Act. Blane held that the statute does not apply to state 1sw enforcemel cefficers. * . : Pe Eek oe ae "In light of the district attorney's orders against further release of verbat: transcripts, (the ACLU board of directcrs) believes that no useful purpose would be terved by requesting the Attorney General of tha United States for a declsratery rul: ing concerning the legality of such releases," said a statement from the Philadelphia‘ It added that sinca "important ‘areas of difference" en wire — between ACLU and law enforcement officers, including Blanc, a pr scheduled soon for general discussion of the problem. ~~»: : Blane is a member of the Philedelphia ACLU board and until recently was treasurer of the branch. ACLY emphasized that election of-a new treasurer had no connection with the wire tap controversy, © os. a Release of the transcripts had been condemned also by the committee on civil,. rights of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Both that group and ACLU pointed out’ in the racketeers' conversations recorded. SOUTHERN CALIF, ACLU ASKS STRENGTHENING. OF SEARCH-SSIZIR® DECISICN The Ararican Civil Liberties Union's Southern California Branch has urged the. California State Supreme Court to reaffirm an earlier ruling that evidence secure illegally cannot be introduced in court. ae : a It so pleaded in a friend of tle court brief dealing with the case of : Beverly Joy Trowbridge, who was taken in custody on suspicion of having marijuana her apartment, The arresting officer acted on information from an unnamed informer. “known to be reliable to the arresting officer," . Information of that nature does not justify an arrest without a search warrant: the brief declared. "There must bo a means of aiding police officers without presenting them formula by which the safeguard of the constitutional provisions are by-passed and tendered ineffectual," it added. "If the officers are not able to inceyendently . in- vestigata because of the nature of the case, then there is no reason why ttay ¢: t resolve this difficulty by seeking the issuance of a search warrant." ot Or, it Said, police should identify an informer, prove his reliability, or Present independent findings supporting the informer. :°-° “~~ tee "How the veracity of the arresting officer could be tested has not yet best demonstratei," ths brief continued. "Confronted by this unverified and untested} ..., Statement even the scrupulous law enforcement agent would soon drift into the patte: of this formula and our constitutional safeguards would become devoid of signifi While arrest of persons on information they possess narcotics 46 not unlaut the brief stated, such an act doas not automatically Justify a sibsequent search: ‘Tho search must be reasonable and incidental to the arrest. wR get CIVIL LIBERTIES BRIEFS Among the many conflicts thet arese during the recent presidential eampa: en one involving stickars on automobiles. The Securities Exchange Commission issued nemorandym declaring that while the use of campaign stickers was not illegal ite regarded as "contrary to the spirit of the law." - The SEC chairman--exempt from tt Hatch Act--h2d four Republican stickers on his station wagon; he said he would no ovject to stickers on SEC employes' vehicles, And a Civil Service Commission spol man said that group felt car stickers ware merely expressions’ of opinion, and did corstitute political activity.» ACLU praised AFL-CIO President George Meany for: ”: Pranptly ordering an investigation of the alleged kidnapping and teating of: New Yor! local officials of the International Union of Bakery & Confeotionery Workers in nection with an internal union dispute. Said ACLU: "Your action certainly makes. Clear organi-ed labor's determination to deal with such problems, by which it will: . TT Msun_te function in a free and demécratio manner as an integral |