Oakland Privacy

Sacramento Police Department License Plate Reader Data Sharing Report

by Tracy Rosenberg • March 1, 2018 • 5 Comments

The Sacramento Police Department’s Vigilant license plate reader system shares geolocation license plate data and photographs of Sacramento residents cars with 792 agencies, including the Post Office, Yellowstone National Park, the Franchise Tax Board, fusion centers in Florida, Ohio, Missouri and Indiana, Georgia Tech University, the University of Delaware, counties/cities across the United States as obscure as Zebulon, NC, Killeen, TX and Greece, NY, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Chicago “Strike Force” and at least three field offices of HSI/ICE.

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Police Militarization, UASI

Alameda County Urban Shield Task Force Report

by Tracy Rosenberg • February 23, 2018 • 0 Comments

On February 27, The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will discuss and vote on whether to accept the enclosed report and recommendations from the large task force they convened in January of 2017 to discuss the Homeland Security-funded anti terrorism training competition and exposition.

Location: Alameda County Administration Building 1221 Oak Street, 5th Floor Oakland. 10:45am. Agenda item 45.1

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Net Neutrality

55 Progressive Groups Write Congress To Support CRA

by Tracy Rosenberg • February 14, 2018 • 0 Comments

55 progressive groups, including OP, wrote to Congress asking the Dems to support the CRA revoking the net neutrality repeal. The letter states: “Internet freedom activists, grassroots organizers, social justice advocates, labor unions, and progressive organizations like ours oppose Pai’s assault on our ability to communicate and connect. The internet has been a transformative tool for free speech and for organizing in furtherance of civil rights and social and economic justice. A free and open internet enables political dissidents and marginalized communities to make their voices heard on their own terms — without being stifled or warped by corporate gatekeepers such as broadband internet service providers (ISPs)”

2010-2012 FOIAS – ICE/HSI and National Vehicle Locator Service (NVLS)

by Tracy Rosenberg • February 13, 2018 • 2 Comments

EPIC and ACLU acquired via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documentation of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) trial access to the National Vehicle Locator Service (NVLS) license plate reader database in the 2010-2012 period, operated by Vigilant Solutions on the LEARN platform.

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Homeland Security

Fact Sheet on Border Searches Of Electronic Devices

by Tracy Rosenberg • February 11, 2018 • 0 Comments

The number of searches of electronic devices while passing through international airports or land border checkpoints is heating up.

This handy fact sheet from ACLU tells you your options and gives you info on how to report what happened to you so civil rights lawyers can have the most up to date information on what’s happening at the border.

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City of Alameda Rejects ALPR Contract With Vigilant

by Tracy Rosenberg • February 7, 2018 • 1 Comment

In the wake of recent revelations that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after years of trying, had successfully gained enhanced access to Vigilant’s private automated license plate reader database, the City of Alameda cancelled a planned expansion of their Vigilant license plate reader system.

In a dramatic City Council hearing on the evening of February 6, vendor Vigilant flew out VP Brian Shockley from Tennessee, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) sent a representative and the Alameda Police Chief presented for more than an hour. Privacy advocates from Oakland Privacy, ACLU Norcal and EFF spoke to the Council, along with Alamedans both opposed and in support of the LPR expansion, which would have blanketed every bridge and tunnel entrance or exit to the island. After midnight, the Council decided not to go ahead with the purchase from Vigilant.

They agreed to revise their policy, consider another RFP. protect their sanctuary status and carefully consider surveillance impact going forward.