by Eric Neville As society is ignorant of its technology, we steer our democracy blindly. As we willfully conceal information from ourselves, we put blinders on society. Yet we need to craft our public policy to address the perpetually moving target that is…
These photos were produced by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in response to a public records request for photos of the 2017 war games exercise. These are culled from over 300 photos showing officers from the Homeland Security Investigations division…
The City of Davis gave a unanimous thumbs up to surveillance transparency on March 20 at the first reading of the ordinance that requires approval prior to equipment acquisition, use policies defining acceptable and unacceptable uses and annual audits on…
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,…
Information services and journalism mega-corporation Thomson Reuters has signed another contract to provide data to ICE. This latest contract, which runs through 2023, is with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and tracks 500,000 alien residents in the United…
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…
James Schwab, spokesperson for the ICE Northern California headquarters located at 630 Sansome Street in San Francisco has resigned from his position. Scwab said the Trump Adminstration including Acting ICE Director James Homan and AG Jeff Sessions made false and…
In a shocking move, Contra Costa sheriff David Livingston kicked immigrant support group CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) in what the group says is a retalitaory action after they drew attention to conditions in the jail, which…
A public records request by Oakland Privacy member Mike Katz Lacabe for pictures from the Urban Shield 2017 counterterrorism drill revealed Homeland Security Investigations/ICE participated in Urban Shield, despite there being no listing for HSI or ICE in the participant…
The Sacramento Police Department’s Vigilant license plate reader system shares geolocation license plate data and photographs of Sacramento residents cars with 792 agencies, including the Post Office, Yellowstone National Park, the Franchise Tax Board, fusion centers in Florida, Ohio,…