Security News > 2022 > January > San Francisco Police Illegally Spying on Protesters
Last summer, the San Francisco police illegally used surveillance cameras at the George Floyd protests.
It prohibits city agencies like the SFPD from acquiring, borrowing, or using surveillance technology, without prior approval from the city's Board of Supervisors, following an open process that includes public participation.
Here, the SFPD went through no such process before spying on protesters with this network of surveillance cameras.
One of the fundamental principles that underlies EPIC's work on surveillance oversight is that individuals should have the power to decide whether surveillance tools are used in their communities and to impose limits on their use.
The CCOPS model, which was developed by ACLU affiliates and other coalition partners in California and implemented through the San Francisco ordinance, is a powerful mechanism to enable public oversight of dangerous surveillance tools.
He seems to be funding all these surveillance cameras in San Francisco, which is really bad. Posted on January 20, 2022 at 6:13 AM 4 Comments.