The , prompting a flood of responses and online commentary. The database includes demographic breakdowns of 382 people by political affiliation, age, race, and employment, and even includes a 鈥淧ick The Protester Game" in which the user must match a piece of demographic information with one of three mugshots.
Immediately after it was posted, , in which they compared the database to the actions of White Citizens鈥� Councils, which published the names of NAACP supporters in local newspapers in the mid twentieth century in order to encourage retaliation against them.
There have been a slew of other responses, some in the form of open letters: ; another Moral Mondays arrestee whose name was included in the database鈥� and condemned the Civitas database as an effort to target individuals like her; and drew over 75 responses within hours.
In a statement on the Civitas website, President Francis X. De Luca said, 鈥淨uestions have been raised about who is really involved in these protests. We decided to get some answers. They provide surprising insights about those arrested and where they come from.鈥�
