San Francisco Mayor London Breed has filed a ballot initiative on surveillance and policing that, if approved, would greatly erode our privacy rights, endanger marginalized communities, and roll back the incredible progress the city has made in creating democratic oversight of police’s use of...

crossposted from !socialism@beehaw.org

San Franciscans, get the word out for this ballot measure to be held March 5, 2024, to prevent police from playing around with surveillance technology for a year before they need to report it.

  •  Rentlar   ( @Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) OP
    7•1 year ago

    There’s more: this Monday, November 13, 2023 at 10:00am PT, the Rules Committee of the Board of Supervisors will meet to discuss upcoming ballot measures, including this awful policing and surveillance ballot measure. You can watch the Rules Committee meeting here, and most importantly, the live feed will tell you how to call in and give public comment. Tell the Board’s Rules Committee that police should not have free reign to deploy dangerous and untested surveillance technologies in San Francisco.