<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div class="story-meta-footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px;">When the Occupy protests spread across the country three years ago, state and local law enforcement officials went on alert. In Milwaukee, officials reported that a group intended to sing holiday carols at “an undisclosed location of ‘high visibility.’ ” In Tennessee, an intelligence analyst sought information about whether groups concerned with animals, war, abortion or the Earth had been involved in protests.</span></div></div><div><font face="georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/us/officials-cast-wide-net-in-monitoring-occupy-protests.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/us/officials-cast-wide-net-in-monitoring-occupy-protests.html?_r=0</a><font face="georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>