San Francisco supervisor Matt Dorsey, a former police department public affairs official, is taking aim at San Francisco’s 2019 surveillance transparency ordinance and facial recognition ban by trying to strip the provision that pays attorney fees for people who enforce the law in court.
If Dorsey’s ordinance passes, then only individually wealthy people would be able to bring suits in response to violations. We will largely be left with SF city government policing itself.
Eliminating attorney fees eliminates public accountability and sanctions lawlessness.