In the wake of recent revelations that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after years of trying, had successfully gained enhanced access to Vigilant’s private automated license plate reader database, the City of Alameda cancelled a planned expansion of their Vigilant…
January 31 was a big legislative deadline in CA’s state capitol, as left-over legislation either had to cross over to the other house or expire. Here at Oakland Privacy, we have two expirations to celebrate as bills we fought against…
Update: SB 712 failed to pass the CA State Senate on January 30, 2018 A bill before the CA State Legislature, SB 712, would make it easier to exercise your legal right to opt out of automatic license plate…
ICE Director Thomas Homan issued a condemnation of the Oakland City Council. The full text is here: https://twitter.com/daviddebolt/status/953810452118515712 And Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf spoke to the media about Oakland’s decison.
Signatories to the November complaint against Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick for untruthful statements relating to the August 2017 West Oakland ICE raid issued a letter on January 16 asking for City of Oakland investigator Joan Suape to be…
By JP Massar. Originally published on Daily Kos On the day Homeland Security announced planning for a major immigration raid in the Bay Area in response to sanctuary city laws… U.S. immigration officials have begun preparing for a major sweep…
Oakland’s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously on January 9th to end all cooperation between the Oakland Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations/ICE; six months after cancelling a memorandum of understanding and five months after OPD assisted in a West Oakland…
By Brian Hofer Dear members and allies of Oakland Privacy: 2017 has been both a remarkable and frustrating year. While the raging dumpster fire that is our national political discourse seems to get worse by the day, Oakland Privacy and…
By J.P Massar Oakland Privacy members provided the impetus for the showing of ‘National Bird’ at the OMNI Commons on November 19th. It is the story of three service members enmeshed in the US government’s drone war; its effect…
By Tamara Dalloul On October 5th, I had the opportunity to attend a Sanctuary City meeting in Oakland City Hall. It was both surreal and eye opening to witness the behind the scenes work that Oakland’s Privacy Commission has put…