40 civil rights and immigration groups, including Oakland Privacy, wrote to the Biden Administration about plans to replace physical walls with surveillance walls at the Mexico border. The letter expressed concerns about a sharp increase in biometric data collection, immigrants…
In June of 2016, Santa Clara County became the first municipality in the country to adopt a surveillance transparency ordinance, also known as CCOPS. Santa Clara’s ordinance, being the first one, is comprehensive. On January 26, 2021, the Santa Clara…
Senate Bill 210 passed the California Senate Judiciary Committee on March 23 by a 9-1 vote. A bill has been introduced in the CA State Legislature to refocus California’s ubiquitous automated license plate readers from tracking the movements of every…
In a busy surveillance day at the Oakland City Council, the council approved a use policy for drone use in Oakland. The city currently does not own any drones, but has borrowed from the stable of drones owned by the…
After a 2 year long process, AB 1185, which allows either a county board of supervisors (by vote) or county residents (by referendum) to set up a sheriff oversight board with subpoena power, is a law. On the last day…
You can read it below. The decision has been added to the Westlaw database. Oakland Privacy v. City of Vallejo, No. FCS054805, 2020 WL 8019580, at *1 (Cal.Super. Nov. 23, 2020).
A study of implicit bias in consumer surveillance device use in San Francisco Noting the rapid spread of Ring/Law Enforcement collaborative agreements in Northern California, Oakland Privacy embarked on a study of the content that device owners in San Francisco…
Update 1/27/2020: On January 26, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution to a) disclose annually to the City any donations received in excess of $100 and not accept donations that are anonymous b) b) shall not use…
Update: Oakland terminated its MOU with the JTTF task force on 10-20-20. On October 13 at 2:3opm, Oakland’s Public Safety committee will debate a measure from City Council chair Rebecca Kaplan to withdraw the Oakland Police Department from the Joint…
Update: 11-17-2020 The Vallejo City Council incorporated changes requested by Oakland Privacy, ACLU and EFF to strengthen the use policy, including restrictions on First Amendment use, datasharing with federal immigration, publishing a quarterly log, and returning to Council for any…