Passed out of the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission on Thursday, Jan 5th, 2017, the proposed Surveillance Equipment Regulation legislation (OPAC-Surveillance-Ordinance-Adopted – PDF) received praise from a number of people involved in civil liberties work. Here are some quotes and statements of support taken from tweets:
“Oakland’s surveillance ordinance is good example for local govs to protect civil liberties.” – Professor of Law Catherine Crump, University of California at Berkeley (testifying, right)
“It’s never been more essential for communities to say no to secret & discriminatory surveillance.Oakland took important step tonight.” – Nicole Ozer, Policy Director, ACLU of California
“This proposal achieves the goal of formalizing privacy values” – Nuola O’Connor, Center for Democracy and Progress
“Here’s to Oakland! Surveillance oversight is absolutely essential if we want to preserve any sense of privacy.” – Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute
Support for the privacy ordinance – Camille Ochoa of the EFF
Supporting statement for the ordinance – Sameena Usman of Council on American-Islamic Relations
“Huge, belated shout out to our fierce effective #privacy friends in #Oakland. You are the BEST.” – @SeattlePrivacy