In the Details: Becker Boards won a big billboard contract by promising fixed revenue for community orgs. Now its in a hurry to change agreement to offer less $$ via percentage. Plus Lee introduces Strong Mayor legislation at Rules, but did anyone notice? https://t.co/FuHx02O9dv
They passed that motion, so the expanded use is going to Council now. What a change in this body. Oakland now has no civilian guardrails on surveillance.
I will be sitting in on the Privacy Advisory Commission meeting today, with a focus on the OPD's request to expand the authorized uses of Flock license plate tracking to include just about any reason you can think of
SOme of these things in the new uses are not crimes at all: Material Witness, "lewd" behavior and "indecent exposure"; pornography; welfare check". Only one question about that last, and there wasn't even a response.