At today’s Alameda County Board of Supervisors meeting, 5+ hours of discussion ended with a decision that Urban Shield as currently constituted would end after the 2018 war games and exposition. The 4-1 vote, with Supervisor Scott Haggerty more or…
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
On The Corner Of 2nd And 4th
All Surveillance, All the Time
Secrecy in Law Enforcement Technology Subverts Law and Justice
ICE At Urban Shield 2017 – (Photo Gallery)
City of Davis Unanimously Adopts Surveillance Transparency
San Pablo Postpones $2.9 Million Dollar ALPR Contract With Vigilant
On March 19, a $2.9 million dollar expansion of San Pablo’s license plate reader system (already extensive) and a switch of vendors to troubled Vigilant Solutions was removed from the meeting consent calender, and then indefinitely postponed after local youth,…
New Thomson Reuters Contract With ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations
New Orleans Mayor Cancels Secret Palantir Contract
Two weeks after criminal justice reporter Ali Winston revealed the City of New Orleans Police Department had a secret predictive policing program with Palantir Software that neither the public nor the City Council knew about, outgoing mayor Mitch Landrieu…