In April 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the FBI monitored gyms throughout Orange County to gather intelligence on local mosques.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations issues a yearly report on the status of Muslim civil rights. The last report was in 2010.

The American Civil Liberties Union’s has a Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief that tracks legal violations in this area.

The American Civil Liberties Union’s resources include a “Watch List Counter” that tracks names on the U.S. government’s terrorist list.

Ahilan Arulanantham is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Co-Director of its Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP). He formerly directed immigrant rights and national security cases for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

Asifa Quraishi-Landes is associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an expert on U.S. and Islamic law.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia directs the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law.

Edward Alden, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times. His latest book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of 9/11.

Michael Wishnie, a law professor at Yale Law School, has taught a class titled “Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security After Sept. 11.” His human rights law clinic has been honored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.