At a meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on June 30, 2026, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office stated that an audit from May 2025 to May 2026 found 140 unauthorized searches of their license plate reader data. As…
Category: Fusion Centers
The Saga of AB 1463 and Other Sacto Tales
The 2023 legislative season in CA’s state capital has come to a close. Oakland Privacy intervened on your behalf on over 65 bills (a world record), piping up in support, opposition or demanding changes. Our final batting average in sign/veto…
How are California Fusion Centers Working With Local Law Enforcement Agencies on Situational Awareness Support?
With the explosion of surveillance data being harvested across many different sectors, fusion centers were built to consolidate the multiple streams of surveillance data into information-sharing hubs that include local, state, federal, and private entities. Each state has at least…
Fusion Center Sharing Report From Vigilant License Plate Database
On June 5, 2018, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), the Homeland Security fusion center for the Norcal region, released via a public records request the sharing report for their account in the license plate reader database LEARN-NVLS, which…
Fusing California
The winter edition of Utne Reader features an article by Media Alliance ED and Oakland Privacy member Tracy Rosenberg on California’s network of fusion centers. http://www.utne.com/politics/fusing-california-zm0z16wzsel Welcome to the terrorism database. You’re in it. By Tracy Rosenberg, from Peace Review Winter…