ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Civil rights advocates criticized a plan to teach firefighters and other workers who regularly go into homes to report suspected terrorist activity they see on the job.
The plan, proposed by a local domestic security task force, could invade privacy and add to a culture of suspicion and paranoia created after the September 11 attacks, said members of the American Civil Liberties Union and a defense lawyers association.
"We think it is misguided," said Scott Rost of the ACLU's Orlando office. "We think it's an attempt to turn neighbor against neighbor, intrude on privacy and encourage racial profiling with little reason to believe it will make us safer."
A brochure for the Citizen Awareness Program warns that a potential sign of international terrorism could be "multiple adult males living together, usually of Middle Eastern appearance and between the ages of 18 and 45, with little or no furnishings."
The warning worries members of Orlando's Arab-American community.
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