by Admin I’d like to tell you that my heart broke when I heard about the Parkland shooting in February. But how many times can the heart break? Considering how frequently mass shootings occur in the US, it’s hard to…
On The Corner Of 2nd And 4th
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
All Surveillance, All the Time
by J.P. Massar The future is here. An unholy mix of 1984, Minority Report and cyberpunk. In westernmost China, and increasingly everywhere in a country composing one seventh of humanity, the omnipresent surveillance state is a reality. Nithin Coca, in…
Secrecy in Law Enforcement Technology Subverts Law and Justice
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…
ICE At Urban Shield 2017 – (Photo Gallery)
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…
City of Davis Unanimously Adopts Surveillance Transparency
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…
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
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…
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…
SF ICE Spokesperson James Schwab Quits Citing False Statements
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…
CIVIC Immigrant Support Group Kicked Out of West County
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…