Neighbors of Highland Hospital, Alameda County’s primary public hospital, were disturbed by a drone hovering about their homes at low altitude (so low that one neighbor said she could feel the vibrations from the drone underneath her feet) gathering footage…
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
San Diego Passes Regulatory Ordinance … With A Hole
To conclude a 2+ year process initiated by the SD Trust Coalition, the City of San Diego adopted (first reading) a surveillance transparency ordinance, but not before amending it to exclude from oversight the activities of the 19 different law…
Statement from Oakland Privacy on The Proposed L.A. Police Commission Surveillance Board/Advisory Body
Statement from Oakland Privacy (https://oaklandprivacy.org) on Proposed Los Angeles Police Commission Surveillance Board/Advisory Body We release this statement as the citizens advocacy group that promoted and helped to implement what has become known as the “Oakland model” of surveillance activism…
Join Our Call for Chrome Privacy Now!
Oakland Privacy, the Bay Area’s anti-surveillance coalition, has put up a new website at ChromePrivacy.org to call on Google to add a global opt-out signal to the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. Years into California’s effort to give people…
National Campaign To End Shotspotter
Privacy and criminal justice activists across the country are focusing on gun detection software, and specifically lead vendor, Shotspotter, after the company’s forensic reports threw two innocent men in jail and drew cops into a fatal encounter with 13 year…
SPJ Madison Award for Oakland Public Records Lawsuit
The Northern California chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists has given out their annual James Madison Award in the Advocacy category to the legal team that filed a class action suit against the Oakland Police Department over thousands of…
Legislative Proposal Seeks to Sanction Federal and Out of State ALPR Sharing
Update: AB 2192 was held in the Assembly Privacy committee and is dead. Oakland Privacy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation provided witness testimony on the bill in both the Assembly Transportation and Assembly Privacy committees. A bill proposed by Assembly…
When A Law Is Your Life: An Oakland Privacy Story
Assembly Bill 229 became law on January 1, 2022. The new law, which requires use of force training for private security guards and employees of alarm companies, was one of two dozen or so bills that Oakland Privacy supported in…
SF Mayor Breed Attacks San Francisco Surveillance Transparency Ordinance
In a woefully inaccurate news release issued at 5pm on January 18, 2022, the mayor of San Francisco London Breed, describes San Francisco’s surveillance ordinance as an “obstacle” to law enforcement and declares an intention to modify it, by ballot…
FBI Will Neither Confirm or Deny the Existence of the Documents I Just Printed
This headline, from reporter Dell Cameron in a Gizmodo article about a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the FBI, highlights the public records work of Oakland Privacy’s Mike Katz-Lacabe. Here are 26 of them, compiled by Mike Katz-Lacabe at…