Comment from CA Assembly Public Safety Chair Reginald Jones-Sawyer speaks about statewide surveillance transparency and its importance at a June 19 committee hearing in Sacramento. Click to listen to a 2 minute snippet.
by Christina Rosalita “Policy after Procurement” has been, until recently, the unofficial non policy of blatantly experimenting until there is dissent or surreptitiously monitoring and using excuses as needed to justify. This approach is not in keeping with the promise…
One week after the 1st reading of Oakland’s benchmark Surveillance Equipment Regulation Ordinance, here are links to and brief excerpts from all (or at least most…) of the coverage from the media.
Oakland Privacy’s goal of blanketing Northern California with community control of surveillance laws is coming true. But California has 57 counties and 482 cities. What if they all implemented surveillance transparency at once? That is what Senate Bill 1186 will…
Closing the circle begun many years ago, the City of Oakland ended the Domain Awareness Center saga, quietly and on consent, by passing the strongest community control of surveillance ordinance in the nation. Beaten on the calender by Santa Clara…
by Eric Neville As society is ignorant of its technology, we steer our democracy blindly. As we willfully conceal information from ourselves, we put blinders on society. Yet we need to craft our public policy to address the perpetually moving target that is…
The City of Davis gave a unanimous thumbs up to surveillance transparency on March 20 at the first reading of the ordinance that requires approval prior to equipment acquisition, use policies defining acceptable and unacceptable uses and annual audits on…
After twenty months of review by multiple citizen commissions, privacy advocates, city staff, and elected officials, on March 13, 2018, the Berkeley City Council unanimously approved a powerful new law aimed at protecting privacy rights. Based on a model created…
By Tamara Dalloul On October 5th, I had the opportunity to attend a Sanctuary City meeting in Oakland City Hall. It was both surreal and eye opening to witness the behind the scenes work that Oakland’s Privacy Commission has put…
A letter of support was filed showing broadbased support for the City of Berkeley to adopt a Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance. Community Support Letter Berkeley