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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

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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.

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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

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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.