Barbara Ellen Handschu is a Jewish-American political activist and lawyer

Lawyer

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 whose surname was memorialized on a set of federal guidelines "[ordering] restrictions on police surveillance ... signed by the city [of New York] in 1985".

Handschu graduated from New York University

New York University

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 and the University of Michigan Law School

University of Michigan Law School

The University of Michigan Law School is the law school of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Founded in 1859, the school has an enrollment of about 1,200 students, most of whom are seeking Juris Doctor or Master of Laws degrees, although the school also offers a Doctor of Juridical...

, but began her career as a law secretary to Justice Hilda Schwartz until her 1969 arrest at a squatters' demonstration in Manhattan

Manhattan

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 caused her to switch careers to criminal defense lawyer.

Judge Charles S. Haight, Jr.

Charles S. Haight, Jr.

Charles Sherman Haight, Jr. is an American lawyer and federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.-Biography:...

, the federal judge who signed off on the guidelines in 1985 "relaxed them, ostensibly to assist antiterrorism detection" in 2003.