SFPD-FBI spying restrictions could face mayoral veto

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/03/09/sfpd-fbi-spying-restrictions-could-face-mayoral-veto

If the San Francisco Police Department isn't working with the FBI to secretly spy on law-abiding local residents – as a secret document released last year (http://www.sfbg.com/2011/04/26/spies-blue) indicated they had the authority to do – then why are Police Chief Greg Suhr, Mayor Ed Lee, and others opposing legislation that would ban such surveillance (http://www.sfbg.com/2012/02/07/local-control-cops?page=0,0)?

When a similar issue arose in Portland, Oregon, civil libertarians pressured the city to withdraw from its MOU with the FBI and create a new one that includes restrictions on the surveillance of people who were not suspected of any crimes, but who may have been subjected to FBI attention because they were Muslims or because of their political beliefs. And Crew said it didn't harm the relationship of the two policing agencies.