"The police have no legitimate reason to keep files on the peaceful expression of political views and opinions," said Mark Silverstein, legal director of the A.C.L.U. of Colorado.
Well, the agency acknowledges that it keeps files on members of parliament so that it can alert prime ministers and leaders of the opposition to any concerns it has about proposed new members of the cabinet or shadow cabinet.
My mother kept files on each of us, and I rifled through their contents: my father's passport, a small cellophane envelope containing a lock of hair, a doctor's report about my brother's childhood dyslexia.
All sound clips were randomly chunked into five-second fragments, as it was desired to keep files short, of the same length to balance the experimental conditions, but long enough to still embed enough information.
Pit bosses keep files and photographs of repeat offenders.
Walsh, a self-proclaimed teetotaler, was a guest on WPRO News Talk 99.7 radio when she mentioned the abundance of alcohol and frequency of drinking by elected officials within the Statehouse, where she says legislators keep filing cabinets full of alcohol.
Scientists keep filing alarming reports of climate change -- including discoveries that CO2 levels surpassed 400 parts per million at least twice this year -- and yet we're on a full-scale policy retreat.
The architect Alexander Gorlin, 58, has kept files full of arcane references to kabbalistic principles during two decades of designing projects, from public schools and synagogues to palatial Hamptons houses.
"She had everything meticulously labeled and kept files and files of provenance notes," said Tom Lamb, Bloomsbury's international head of books and manuscripts.
"It really wasn't an easy thing for him, but he was absolutely determined to keep filing," said the publisher of The Daily Racing Form, Steven Crist.
