CA Governor Jerry Brown will soon be in possession of two law enforcement transparency bills that faced huge odds getting to his desk, AB 748 and SB 1421
Historic Police Transparency Bills Sent To CA Governor
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
DEFCON 2018: You’re Just Complaining Because You’re Guilty
A recent panel at the DEFCON conference covered the expansive use of software in criminal justice and how adverserial testing can unlock the flaws, failures, gaps and biases that can mean the difference between life and death and freedom…
Santa Clara County Using Palantir to Data Mine Health/Crime Data
Reported by Jennifer Wadsworth at San Jose Inside “Given my work and knowing the company’s role in law enforcement and surveillance, I can say they’re a bit of a creepy choice,” says Mike Katz-Lacabe, who founded the Center for Human Rights…
No DAC For BART – August 9th 9:00AM – 2040 Webster Oakland
On Thursday, BART police will propose a system-wide security dragnet for the Bay Area’s transit system. BART police are asking the board to approve the project in concept and authorize trials at Lake Merritt and Civic Center BART stations.…
ICE Protests Highlight Contra Costa County Sheriff Drone Program
Reprinted from Center for Human Rights and Privacy Many protesters observed the use of multiple drones at the West Contra Costa County Detention Center on June 30, 2018, during a protest against ICE and its practice of family…
114 Civil Rights Groups on Pre-Trial Risk Assessment
114 civil and human rights groups, including Oakland Privacy, joined together to urge that pre-trial detention including risk assessment or predictive software and electronic shackles, be used as infrequently as possible. Pretrial “risk assessment” instruments – although they may seem…
The Altar at McArthur BART for Nia Wilson
24 Civil Rights Groups Write To Dems Demanding Intelligence Oversight
Two dozen civil rights and liberties groups rose above party-based partisanship to insist Congressional Democrats including Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, John Warner and Adam Schiff stop trying to weaken congressional oversight of intelligence agencies.
Aaron Swartz Day Tutorial: How To Cut And Paste Your Way To A Surveillance Policy Framework
The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project aims to empower professional journalists and “citizen journalists,” so they can quickly and easily file a large set of public records requests to the Police and Sheriff Departments of a given city. The…
Here There And Everywhere
Except in Berkeley, apparently. The once locus of progressivism with a young Our Revolution-endorsed mayor has to watch that mayor cave to police union pressure and continue tacit support of Alameda County’s Trump-loving sheriff and his Homeland Security-funded war games by a one vote margin. Yet another completely full Council hearing room for naught.