In the ruling, Judge Pauley dismissed that claim, likening the Facebook access instead to a phone wiretap in which one person on the call allows the government to monitor it -- a practice that has been ruled constitutional.
Mr. Charney said the Center for Constitutional Rights's call for a federal monitor over stop-and-frisk stemmed from its dissatisfaction with the settlement in a suit it filed against the NYPD following the 1999 police shooting death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant.