A class action lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department for outstanding public records, filed by 3 free-lance journalists (Scott Morris, Sarah Belle Lin, Brian Krans) and Oakland Privacy has settled. The City of Oakland agreed to release all outstanding public…
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
Help Us Welcome 2022 Privacy Rights Fellow Yadi Younse.
Oakland Privacy is thrilled to announce that Yadi Younse will be our 2022 Privacy Rights Fellow, a new part-time special projects position that has generously been funded by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. We had a dozen…
Vallejo Sets Up Police Surveillance Advisory Board – Searching for Members
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…
Public Records: Long Beach PD
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…
Announcing: OP Privacy Rights Fellowships
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.…
Surveillance Vendor Shotspotter Alters Forensic Reports After Police Requests
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…
The Gorgon Stare Comes Home: No Spy Planes in San Francisco
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.
Surveillance and Mental Health
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…
Seattle Releases Report on George Floyd Protests
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.…
Vallejo Will Have a Surveillance Advisory Board: We’re Just Not Sure When
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…