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.
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.