Four years after the passage of San Francisco’s surveillance ordinance by a vote of 10-1, SF mayor London Breed is threatening to ask city voters to gut it via ballot inititative. Breed’s proposed ordinance would, among other things, allow surveillance…
Category: Transparency Ordinance
Lawsuit Filed To Stop Public Camera Exemption in Berkeley
On August 22, 2022, Oakland Privacy, along with Berkeley residents Adolfo Cabral, J.P. Massar and Cindy Shamban filed a lawsuit against the City of Berkeley seeking to end the City’s decision to exempt public cameras they are deploying on major…
Statement from Oakland Privacy on The Proposed L.A. Police Commission Surveillance Board/Advisory Body
Statement from Oakland Privacy (https://oaklandprivacy.org) on Proposed Los Angeles Police Commission Surveillance Board/Advisory Body We release this statement as the citizens advocacy group that promoted and helped to implement what has become known as the “Oakland model” of surveillance activism…
SF Mayor Breed Attacks San Francisco Surveillance Transparency Ordinance
In a woefully inaccurate news release issued at 5pm on January 18, 2022, the mayor of San Francisco London Breed, describes San Francisco’s surveillance ordinance as an “obstacle” to law enforcement and declares an intention to modify it, by ballot…
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…
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…
City of Vallejo Debating Citizen Advisory Group on Surveillance
Update: On April 27, the Vallejo City Council voted unanimously to move ahead with a citizen advisory board on surveillance and policing technology. The council plans to finalize adoption at the July 13 city council meeting after the adoption of…
AB 1185 Letter to the Journal
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…
BART 2020 Annual Surveillance Report
BART has filed their annual surveillance report on the 7 surveillance technologies in use on the Bay Area Rapid Transit System.
Fighting Local Surveillance: A Toolkit
Getting a surveillance transparency ordinance or a facial recognition ban passed in your town can seem like an overwhelming task. It’s not. You can do it! Oakland Privacy and ACLU of Northern California sat down to write a step by…