Berkeley Mayor: We Passed The “Strongest” Police Surveillance Law

Apr 24 2018 by Fast Company

 

Berkeley’s new surveillance ordinance is one of a growing crop of laws meant to put more control over surveillance in the public’s hands.

After over a decade of police departments acquiring even more powerful methods for gazing into private lives, and amid ongoing concerns about bias in policing, the city council of Berkeley, California, is attempting to aggressively curb police surveillance by law. On March 27, it unanimously passed an ordinance that broadly covers the city’s...

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