Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points – 2020

Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2020:

  • Deeply involved in the successful effort to get Santa Cruz to pass a facial recognition and predictive policing ban.
  • Initiated and concluded a successful lawsuit against Vallejo re: Stingray approval and use by Council.
  • Filed a lawsuit against Oakland for egregiously violating the Public Records Act.
  • Lobbied for and saw AB 1185, Sheriff Oversight, passed and signed into law.
  • Pushed for and got the AC Transit Board to approve a policy on its surveillance cameras for its rapid-transit platforms.
  • Participated in an opposition campaign to the faux commercial privacy ballot initiative, Prop 24. (it passed nonetheless).
  • Advised activists in Portland, Oregon on their campaign which ultimately resulted in passing a ban on both government AND commercial use of facial recognition, a first.
  • Helped defeat a proposal for massive use of surveillance cameras across Berkeley.
  • Produced a report on Ring camera usage via the ‘Neighbors App’ in San Francisco.
  • Pushed for and succeeded in cutting/eliminating the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ program in California
  • Helped initiate successful public records lawsuits against the Sacramento and Fresno county sheriffs
  • Obtained and distributed much information via public records requests, including on law enforcement helicopters, cell site simulator logs and ALPR deployment locations.

Check out our doings for 2019.

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