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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers
By a margin of 4-7, the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to give the SFPD access to privately owned cameras. With the cameras, comes the power to put essentially the entire city under live surveillance indefinitely.
California Must Sever Law Enforcement from Immigration Enforcement. The Central Valley Shows Us Why.
Over the course of four years, the ACLU uncovered documents showing that sheriffs throughout the Central Valley have worked behind the scenes to evade pro-immigrant laws. They have devised underhanded schemes to transfer people from jails to ICE and avoid the public reporting required under state law.
With Our Rights Under Attack, We Can’t Let SFPD Exploit Private Surveillance Cameras
Here in the Bay Area, we must do everything we can right now to bolster privacy protections, not build more surveillance.
Our Vision to Achieve True Public Safety
We can increase equality, justice, and safety without resorting to criminalization and surveillance.
Recordings Show the California Highway Patrol’s Aerial Surveillance of Racial Justice Protests
Our year-long investigation uncovered records that show California Highway Patrol (CHP) spying on protesters for racial justice in cities up and down the state
Spies in the California Skies: New Records Expose State Police Aerial Surveillance of Racial Justice Protesters
If you were one of the thousands of people in California protesting the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the countless other Black lives taken by police violence, there’s a good chance you heard California Highway Patrol helicopters circling over your head.
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