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” “EENLY BULLETIN #1779. ; a eee _Decanber 3s Tess eo: informed ths ACLU that “twa: serd f telapheas Ce sonore teria Betws ila Jaga racketeers and other persons were give, the press Jast summer, without, pia autherity or karowledgs while ha was absent rom Thiladstghia, He added thats, like the ACLU branch, he regards the act aga vicla tion of civil Ubertiess wen : while still. condemning the release of ths tranecripts , “the ACLU cancelied: ng to asx Attornay Ceneral Herbort Brownell if the release violated the. Federal Conmmuni=., . cations Act. Blane held that the statute does not AFPy, to, State iw enforcement :: ; erficerse oe . , . woe : - Fs i "In light of ‘the district attorney's orders againet further release of verbatin -transeripts, (the ACLU board of directcrs) believes that no useful purpose would be’. : kerved by .requesting the Attorney General of thea United States fer a declsratery rul= ; 4ng cencerning the legality of ‘such meleases," said | a statement from the Philadephia branch. Dae It added that einca nportant areas of difference cn wire _ between ACLU and law enforcement officers, including Blancy a rr scheduled soon for genoral discussion of the Problem. *~*" ae " Blane ‘is. a nenber of the Philede Iphia ACLU board. and “untay recently + was . treasurer of the branch. ACL emphasized that election of a new |, treasurer chad no” connection with the wire tap controversy. = = ss. ’ oe ean Release of the transcripts had been condéimed also by the committee on civil.: rights of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Both that group and ACLU pointed out: that the names of reputable persons who had no relation to ordme had been nentieng in the racketeers! conversations recorded. . . SOUTHERN CALIF. ACLU ASKS STRENGTHENING. OF SEARCH-SSIZIRRE DECISICN The Arerican Civil Liberties Union's Southern California Branch has urged th California State Supreme Court to reaffirm an earlier ruling that evidence secured illegally cannot be introduced in court. ee j It so pleaded in a friend of the court brief dealing with the case of a Beverly Joy Trowbridge, who was taken in custody on suspicion of having marijuana. in her apartment, The arresting officer acted on information from an unnamed informer. "known to be reliable to the arres ting officer." - . Information of that nature does not justify ¢ an arrest without @ a . search warra the brief declared. "There must bs a means of aiding police officers without presenting them a ra formula by which the safeguard of the constitutional provisions are by-passed and: rendered ineffectual," it added. "If the officers are not able to indeyandently in: vestigate because of the nature of the case, then there is no reason why they eanne resolve this difficulty by seeking the issuance of a search warrant! ; Or, it said, police should iden tify an inforner, prove, his sotkaantiy, or present independent findings supporting the informer. oor "How the veracity of the arresting officer could be ‘tested has not’ t yet bean’ demonstrated," ths brief continued. "Confronted by this unverified and wmtested: ze _., Statement even the scrupulous law enforcement agent would soon drift into the pattern of this formula and our constitutional Safeguards would become devoid of significances Me While arrest of. persons en information they posses 8 oS navestice 46 not “unlawfid ¥ the brief stated, such an act doses not automatically justify a oubeoauent ¢ Sear The Search must be reasonable and incidental to the arreste : BS " Rageerser cIVaL. LIBERTIES BRIEFS : Among the many conflicts thet arose during the recent presidential canpal : one involving stickers on automobiles. The Securities Exchange Commission issued memorandum declaring that while the use of campaign stickers was not illegal it w regarded as "contrary to the spirit of the law." The SEC chairman--exempt from Hatch Act--had four Republican stickers on his station wagon; he said he would no *,. object to stickers on SEC employes' vehicles. And a Civil Service Commission spokes~. man said that group felt car stickers ware merely expressions of opinion, and did not corstitute political activity...ACLU praised AFL-CIO President George Meany for:? ‘ Pronptly ordering an investigation of the alleged kidnapping and beating of: New ‘York:. locai officials of the International Union of Bakery & Confectionery Workers in’ cons: nection with an internal union dispute. Said ACLU; “Your action certainly makes. be Clear organ?=ed labor's determination to deal with such problems, by which it will: % ES . ed Lune ts ou in a free and demceratio manner as an integral : :