Author: JP Massar

Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points – 2021

Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2021: Received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award. Passage of Oakland’s and Berkeley’s Militarized Equipment Regulation Ordinances. Creation of the BadApple toolkit for police accountability. Castro neighborhood in…

Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points

Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2019… Urban Shield – Dead. San Francisco enacts a surveillance equipment regulation ordinance (SERO) and facial recognition ban. Oakland and Berkeley pass facial recognition bans. Oakland rejects new Bearcat…

A Short History of Urban Shield.

On March 14th, 2019, the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative Approval Authority voted unanimously to take the monies for Urban Shield and other emergency preparedness programs usually distributed to Alameda County and redistribute them around the Bay Area, to…