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Judge weighs government's request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

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A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI 's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep the files under wraps in the national archives.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference , which King led, is opposed to unsealing any of the records for privacy reasons.

In 1977 , a court order directed the FBI to collect records about its surveillance and monitoring of King and turn them over to the National Archives and Records Administration .