"Newly released documents reveal that Louisiana state intelligence officers surveilled community groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline," the release said on Thursday.
8 March 2017, 18:54 GMT
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade environmental activist group held a press conference in the state capital Baton Rouge on Thursday where they unveiled the documents, the Center for Constitutional Rights said.
"The release of the documents follows a ruling last week by a federal judge in Louisiana ordering a halt to construction of the pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin," the release said.
Louisiana Bucket Brigade and the Center for Constitutional Rights obtained the documents through a public records request to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the release added.
