According to public records from dozens of California law enforcement agencies, there are at least 55 federal agencies accessing license plate reader data from Motorola license plate readers. Federal law enforcement agencies with access to this license plate reader data…
Category: Immigration and ICE
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…
San Mateo County Ends ICE Transfers
After a lengthy Truth Act Forum on November 3, San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos announced that San Mateo County will no longer respond to notification requests from ICE. In a statement, Bolanos said “It simply is not worth losing…
Anti-Muslim Hate Group Uses Same Name As State-Funded PVE Program
California’s new counter-terrorism via social services program, Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), which is a state version of the federal Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program, has run into a big problem. A hate speech problem. A group called the Clarion Project,…
Close The Camps at Palantir 9/13
Bay Area activists continue to picket and protest at the headquarters of Palantir Technologies, the Palo Alto software company powering the Trump Administration’s deportation regime. On one of the hottest days of the year, protestors rallied at the company’s Palo…
2018 Contract Between Law Enforcement NLETS Database and ICE-ERO
A newly-released comprehensive list of ICE contracts from 2010-2018 released by Sludge has revealed a 2018 contract between the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications Agency (NLETS) and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations. The contract document (dated September 21 2018 PR# 192118EROLESA…
Richmond Cancels Vigilant Solutions ALPR Contract
Update: On June 25, the Richmond City Council voted 5-2 not to renew their contract with Vigilant Solutions. Richmond Standard The decision by the Council represents the first Bay Area municipal contract cancelled as a result of the passage of…
San Pablo Cops Sending License Plates to Border Patrol
In March of 2018, the small East Bay city of San Pablo delayed a $2.4 million dollar expansion of their Vigilant Solutions license plate reader surveillance system after community distress about Vigilant’s contract with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A…
79 Million Bay Area License Plates to Homeland Security
Mike Katz-Lacabe reports that Homeland Security fusion center NCRIC, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, collected 79.2 million license plates from a variety of Northern California cities from June of 2018 to May of 2019. The City of Piedmont sent…
Palantir Should Not Sponsor Privacy Conference at Berkeley
Update: Privacy Law Scholars Conference drops Palantir as a sponsor. Update: A week after Oakland Privacy sent our letter, Mijente started a petition to Berkeley Law School. The petition is here. Update: The Privacy Law Scholars Conference and Berkeley Law…