Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points

Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2019…

  • Urban Shield – Dead.
  • San Francisco enacts a surveillance equipment regulation ordinance (SERO) and facial recognition ban.
  • Oakland and Berkeley pass facial recognition bans.
  • Oakland rejects new Bearcat for OPD.
  • Richmond, CA terminates its Vigilant ALPR contract, honoring their ordinance prohibiting doing business with ICE contractors.
  • Oakland Privacy receives EFF’s Barlow award “extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology.”
  • Two dozen industry bills designed to weaken the CA Consumer Privacy Act before it went into effect defeated or reduced to neutral impact.
  • California revised Use of Force legislation passed and signed into law.
  • Three year moratorium on police use of facial recognition in California signed into law.
  • Oakland begins process of creating a police militarized equipment regulation ordinance, similar to its surveillance equipment regulation ordinance.
  • Berkeley passes ordinance requiring that certain commercial establishments accept cash, following in San Francisco’s footsteps earlier in the year.

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