Oakland Privacy was instrumental in the creation of the first municipal privacy advisory commission in the United States in Oakland, CA after fighting off the Homeland Security-funded Domain Awareness Center.
On this page, we will, as of Jan 1 2021, store relevant documents of Commission meetings and hearings as the City of Oakland website is not comprehensive and difficult to navigate.
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
February 2021
January 2021
Complete documents from the January 7, 2021 meeting, including ALPR, Fair Payment Ordinance, agenda, minutes, and the yearly Workplan: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/Wg6gjx3OfXarAj6
December 2020
October 2020
Complete documents from the October 1, 2020 meeting, including OPD Biometric Use policy, OPD recommendations, Deployment memo videostreams, agenda, and minutes: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/BD7ZRCtBwphB2cc
September 2020
Complete documents from the September 3, 2020 meeting, including the Coplink Surveillance Impact Report, DNA Backlog Reduction reports, and OPD Crime Lab documents: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/Krsps8cLAIEZM0s
August 2020
Complete documents from the August 6, 2020 meeting, including a predictive policing report, and ALPR Annual PAC Report: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/1VVOgxZwxe8QiPF
July 2020
Complete documents from the July 2, 2020 meeting, including the Oakland Citizen Data Report, the OPD/FBI JTTF Annual Report, Coplink Surveillance Impact Report: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/IFaMTzi3QyMyCKY
June 2020
Complete documents from the June 4, 2020 meeting, including the OPD/FBI JTTF 2019 Annual Report, and Coplink Surveillance reports: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/wq1uHyut7PPul3w
May 2020
Complete documents from the May 14, 2020 meeting, including the Drone/UAV Surveillance Impact Report, Coplink Surveillance Report: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/0Qwj790BUIFEPCZ
March 2020
Complete documents from the March 5, 2020 meeting, including Chinatown Camera Grant Program Use Statement and Impact Policy, Live Stream Transmitter Surveillance Impact Report, and ATF, DEA, and USMS Annual Reports: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/jCp6a1XdRCUChk4
February 2020
Complete documents from the February 6, 2020 meeting, including the Cell Site Simulator Annual Report, Drone/UAV Surveillance Import Report, Mobile ID Reader Surveillance Impact Report, PAC Annual Report: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/G2mH7alJskb4ABZ
January 2020
Complete documents from the January 8, 2020 meeting, including DGO Drone documents, OPD Surveillance Technologies list, PAC Implementation Roadmap: https://pac.oaklandprivacy.org/index.php/s/EgvCypsum8Ymu03