He said he was suspicious as to how the officers were able to escort the PSLM members during their letter-delivering.
“In particular, the fact that the administration had advance notice about a letter delivery that was barely discussed on an e-mail list internal to PSLM raises the troubling possibility that they are reading our private e-mail frequently,” Skomarovsky wrote in an e-mail.
Illingworth said he learned that PSLM would be delivering the letter by chance, after seeing the officers outside Mass. Hall.
A police officer at Mass. Hall said HUPD had heard of PSLM’s plans through “word of mouth.”
A HUPD spokesperson could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.
—Staff writer Elisabeth S. Theodore can be reached at theodore@fas.harvard.edu.