OP Appendix of Surveillance Equipment & Abbreviations
| ACDA | Alameda County District Attorney |
| ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union |
| AG | Attorney General |
| ALCO | Alameda County |
| ALPR | Automated License Plate Reader |
| ANPR | Automatic Number Plate Reader |
| APC/ APV | Armored Personnel Carrier/Vehicle |
| APTP | Anti Police-Terror Project |
| ARIES | Automated Regional Information Exchange System – law enforcement information sharing system |
| ARJIS | Automated Regional Justice Information System (San Diego) – law enforcement information sharing system |
| AROC | Arab Resource and Organizing Center (member of the Urban Shield Coalition) |
| ARREST | Automated Records Retrieval and Electronic Sharing Technology (Eastern Washington) – law enforcement information sharing system |
| ATF | Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (a federal agency like the FBI) |
| BART | Bay Area Rapid Transit (has an elected Board) |
| #berkmtg | Hashtag for Berkeley City Council meetings |
| BIMA | Biometrics Identity Management Agency |
| BoS | (generic) – Board of Supervisors (for a County, e.g., the Alameda County Board of Supervisors), legislative body for a County |
| BPD | Berkeley Police Department |
| BRDC | Bill of Rights Defense Committee |
| CalECPA | CA Electronic Communications Privacy Act |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CCOPS | Community Control of Police Surveillance |
| CJIS | Criminal Justice Information Services (FBI) |
| CPRA | California Public Records Act |
| CSS | Cell Site Simulator (IMSI catcher, Stingray) |
| CVE | Countering Violent Extremism – FBI Curriculum |
| DA | District Attorney |
| DAC | Domain Awareness Center |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
| DNI | Director of National Intelligence |
| DNS | Domain Name Servers [How one looks up a website if you know the name] |
| DOJ | Department of Justice |
| EBX | East Bay Express |
| EBRPD | East Bay Regional Parks District (has police!) |
| EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| EPCA | Electronic Privacy Communications Act (Now CA law – no search of electronic devices without a warrant) |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FIRS | Fingerprint Identification Records System |
| FISA | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
| FLIR | Forward Looking InfraRed |
| FOIA | Freedom of Information Act (federal) |
| FR/FRT | Facial Recognition / Facial Recognition Technology |
| Fusion Center | Information sharing center designed to promote information sharing at the federal level |
| GAP | Government Accountability Project |
| HIDTA | High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area |
| IAFIS | Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
| ICE | Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| IDENT | Automated Biometric Identification System (DHS database) |
| IMS | Intelligence Management System |
| IMSI | International Mobile Subscriber Identifier |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| JTTF | Joint Terrorism Task Force |
| MBARK | Multimodal Biometric Application Resource Kit |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| NCHIDTA | Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area |
| NCIC | National Crime Information Center |
| NCRIC | Northern California Regional Intelligence Center |
| NCRTTAC | Northern California Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center |
| NGA | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
| NGI | Next Generation Identification |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| NSA | Negotiated Settlement Agreement (re: OPD) |
| #oakmtg | Hashtag for Oakland City Council, Committee and Police Commission meetings |
| OJC | Oakland Justice Coalition |
| OPAC | Oakland Privacy Advisory Committee |
| OPD | Oakland Police Department |
| P&J | (Berkeley) Peace and Justice Commission |
| Palantir | Company that makes spying and surveillance software |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy (Encryption Software) |
| PRC | (Berkeley) Police Review Commission |
| PRR | Public Records Request (local/state) |
| RAIN | Regional Automated Information Network (Oregon) – law enforcement information sharing system |
| RFP/RFQ | Request for Proposal / Request for Qualifications |
| SARS | Suspicious Activity Reporting |
| SBISS | South Bay Information Sharing System – law enforcement information sharing system |
| SB 1421 | A new CA law that took effect Jan 1, 2019 that allows certain police misconduct records to be made public. |
| SERO | Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance |
| Shotspotter | Gunshot detection systems |
| STAC | State Threat Assessment Center |
| sUAS | small Unmanned Aircraft Systems – see UAV |
| SWAT | Special Weapons and Tactics (Team) |
| Stingray/Hailstorm | Cell Site Simulators made by Harris Corp, IMSI catcher |
| TLO | Terrorism Liason Officer – Local cops deputized into JTTF |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| US-VISIT | United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, now called Office of Biometric Identity Management |
| UASI | Urban Areas Security Initiative |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (aka, a ‘Drone’) |
| WBISS | West Bay Information Sharing System – law enforcement information sharing system |