Opinion ID: 202162
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Heading: the facts alleged

Text: 2 For reasons that shortly shall become apparent, we glean the relevant facts from the plaintiffs' amended complaint. 3 The fourteen plaintiffs are full-time employees at U.P.R.'s Mayaguez campus. Within the last decade, they all have worked in the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service, which is connected with U.P.R.'s College of Agricultural Science and, more particularly, its Agricultural Extension Service Program (AESP). The defendants include U.P.R. and its president, the Mayaguez campus and its chancellor, and the interim deans of both the College of Agricultural Science and the AESP. 1 The individual defendants are sued in their official and personal capacities. 4 The plaintiffs allege in substance that the AESP has, for the last ten years, gathered information about eighty to ninety employees without their consent and in a suspicious manner. The plaintiffs are part of that complement. Though saved, the information is not part of the plaintiffs' official personnel records. 2 These illegal files have the ostensible purpose of identifying and/or classifying plaintiffs based on their membership in some unidentified professional association[s] and/or the plaintiffs' expressions against the [d]efendants (not otherwise described). The files supposedly contain[] information about alleged complaints against [p]laintiffs and have been used to deny hiring [and] promotions, as well as to shape employment termination decisions.