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This project has led to the development of an active community of contributors and users who are using the archive as a resource to defend victims of unfounded police surveillance and for court cases. The project has become an important example of how to overcome challenges of access to information.
In 2015, the Fund supported the Special Branch Files Project which has become a live archive of declassified files on the surveillance of political movements and individuals in the UK.This is a crucial project because the Metropolitan Police increasingly refuses requests to disclose Special Branch files despite the introduction in 2005 of the Freedom of Information Act in Britain.
