Now that the year-long process of establishing a Police Surveillance Advisory Board in Vallejo is drawing to a close, it is time to turn our attention to seating members on this board. Vallejo is a small city, with only 141,000…
The Aaron Swartz Police Surveillance Project and Open the Government teamed up to file suit against the Long Beach Police Department for withholding requested records. In response to the lawsuit, a number of records have been released about the Long…
We are thrilled to announce that thanks to the generosity of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment and the fiscal sponsorship of the Omni Commons, OP will be hosting paid part-time fellowships in 2021-2022 and again in 2022-2023.…
The gunshot detection technology Spotshotter has recently been the subject of investigations by Vice and the Associated Press stating the company routinely changes their forensic reports at the request of police department customers. The modifications include the reclassification of sounds…
Take action and speak up about the expansion of the Capital Police to a field office in San Francisco with their eye in the sky aeriel surveillance plans from the Department of Defense.
by Ursula Curiousa “Do you think you’re being watched?” This question is as loaded as a gun, but commonly pops up in mental health screening protocols. So what if I do think multiple law enforcement agencies have access to the…
The Seattle Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a set of recommendation from the entinel Event Review (SER) of the first days of protests that took place in Seattle following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police.…
On July 13, the Vallejo City Council allocated time on the agenda for Oakland Privacy and the ACLU of Northern California to present on why the City, famous for an extremely high rate of police violence, would benefit from a…
On June 24, an en banc panel of the Fourth Circuit of Appeals issued a ruling in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v City of Baltimore that the aerial high definition surveillance planes flown over Baltimore were an unconstitutional violation…
Update: On July 13, the Hayward City Council approved the drone purchase on a 5-2 vote, but required city adminstration to return with a fully operational policy prior to deployment. After initially backing off due to community concerns, the Hayward…