In a huge public interest victory, the CA Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement bulk license plate scans (APRS) are not exempt from the California Public Records Act and constitute public records, overturning a Superior court decision. The case…
Month: August 2017
Open Letter Regarding West Oakland HSI Operation
Oakland Privacy Open Letter Regarding West Oakland HSI Operation ** On July 18, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to terminate an existing agreement with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), one week after a similar unanimous vote in the Public…
It Took A Village To Stop A DAC
by JP Massar No one had a clue the thing even existed. Buried deep within the consent agenda of the Oakland City Council for years, appropriations for the Domain Awareness Center and the implications thereof had gone unnoticed. Until,…
An Open Letter To Those Who Have Nothing to Hide
by Admin I love a good argument. Most that I have these days tend to focus on civil liberties, and the issue of government surveillance comes up frequently. It’s usually during these debates, running on some soliloquy-within-a-soliloquy about the ever-increasing…
August 16 HSI/ICE Raid in West Oakland
KPIX coverage of the August 16 Homeland Security Investigations (ICE) raid in the City of Oakland. The raid came less than a month after the Oakland City Council rejected a memorandum of understanding with Homeland Security Investigations and terminated it, saying they did not want the City’s police department cooperating with ICE. Oakland Privacy Commission chair Brian Hofer reflects on the bad optics of the Police Department’s decision.
Internet Of Things; Things Like Walls, Blockades And Checkpoints
By Christina Rosalita One of Trump’s campaign promises was to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. It was a popular political rally cry, but a physical wall spanning the entire border is, in reality; a…
The Police State Will Be Funded
2017 Bay Area UASI grants have been announced. The full PDF for the Bay Area is below. 44 total projects were funded. Here are some particular grants of interest.
Stopping STOPS: Urban Shield Vendor Vetoed Due To Racist Stereotyping
Originally printed at: https://media-alliance.org/stopping-stops-urban-shield-vendor-vetoed-due-to-racist-stereotyping/ On August 1,the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, which has been under fire for several years over the police militarization expo Urban Shield, took its first action to enforce 12 reform principles the Board embraced in…