THE WEEK OF APRIL 20-26 –OAKLAND– Regular council committee meetings, Tuesday, April 24, starts at 9:30 a.m. ➤Finance & Management Committee, 9 a.m. [ENTIRE AGENDA HERE]–BALLOT MEASURE TO TAX VACANT PROPERTIES– Oakland Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Dan Kalb say the city… Read More ›
THE WEEK OF APRIL 6-12 –OAKLAND– Regular council committee meetings, Tuesday, April 10, starts at 9:30 a.m. ➤Community & Economic Development Committee, 1:30 p.m. [ENTIRE AGENDA HERE]–CYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER– Councilmember Desley Brooks‘ controversial proposal to use funding derived from some voter-approved… Read More ›
A proposal Tuesday night would have allowed installation of fixed-mounted license-plate readers near Alameda bridges and other exit points. ALAMEDA CITY COUNCILA controversial proposal to install 13 Automated License-Plate Readers (ALPRs) mounted at fixed points around Alameda’s bridges and exit… Read More ›
THE WEEK OF JAN. 26-FEB. 1–ALAMEDA– Special closed session council meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 3:30 p.m. [ENTIRE AGENDA HERE]–ALAMEDA’S CITY MANAGER SCANDAL?– It’s not clear what exactly the Alameda City Council might be discussing behind closed doors Tuesday afternoon. The agenda suggests the… Read More ›
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s support for warrantless surveillance is nothing new. 15TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTVery few members of Congress have been more critical of President Trump than East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell. But Swalwell was among a group of Democrats that helped… Read More ›
Dublin and Danville in Contra Costa County approved license plate readers and other cameras this week. SECURITY | City and Town Council’s in Dublin and Danville voted this week to welcome the addition of automated license plate readers to their… Read More ›
Rep. Swalwell says his guest to Tuesday’s State of the Union is a community leader in reducing gun violence. CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT |As Rep. Eric Swalwell’s guest to Tuesday’s State of the Union, Fremont Police Chief Richard Lucero is described as a regional… Read More ›
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Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley struggled this week with how one controversial surveillance device actually works. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley denied surveillance equipment that mimics a cell tower to surreptitiously monitor bulk… Read More ›
Rep. Eric Swalwell, State Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett and Hugh Bussell. THE CANDIDATES All you really know about Rep. Eric Swalwell’s first 18 months in Congress is he has compiled 350,000 frequent flier miles traveling from the East Bay… Read More ›
CONGRESS DISTRICT 17 Which number will be higher? The number of votes Joel Vanlandingham receives or the number of words allotted to him by the corporate press? On Tuesday, Vanlandingham told the San Jose Mercury News he will move within the… Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | PRIVACY | Oakland’s Domain Awareness Center is being rolled back to its original purpose as a port-only surveillance project. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan cast the tie-breaking vote early Wednesday morning approving an amendment that considerably limits… Read More ›
Oakland City Council Preview1 Frank Ogawa PlazaTuesday, Mar. 4, 5:30 p.m.[FULL AGENDA HERE]Twitter hashtag: #oakmtg >>> REASON TO FILL OUT A SPEAKER’S CARD Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney’s speech Feb. 18 against the DAC may have turned the tide against its… Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | DAC | Privacy groups are aggressively lobbying members of the Oakland City Council to vote Tuesday night against a resolution approving a $1.6 million contract for the second phase of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC). In… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names are becoming increasingly concerned over the breadth of the federal government’s reach into the consumer data that companies, like Apple, Google and Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn and AOL collect. On… Read More ›
Oakland City Council meeting Nov. 19. OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | ANALYSIS | There are times when even the most veteran of journalists drop their editorial guard and reveal exactly how they think. Most people in Oakland know San Francisco Chronicle… Read More ›
FREMONT CITY COUNCIL//ANALYSIS | If there ever was an issue that screamed potential Alameda County grand jury investigation, it’s Fremont’s scheme to use money set aside for housing the poor to purchase 20 surveillance cameras effectively to keep an eye… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO//PRIVACY | San Leandro City Council approved to move ahead with expanding its video surveillance system, however, with hesitation over the one-year retention period of information collected by the cameras. The council approved, 5-2, directing staff to formulate a plan for additional cameras… Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | At a time when Americans are increasingly skeptical of government surveillance in their lives, the Oakland City Council reversed the trend early Wednesday morning by authorizing funding for a large-scale citywide surveillance center backed by federal stimulus dollars. As… Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL//PRIVACY | Oakland’s plan to link disparate video feeds across the city and port into one massive data center is drawing intense criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. In a letter sent Wednesday to… Read More ›
Multiple camera and data feeds from across Oakland would flow to a proposedvideo and information center. OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL//PRIVACY | In the next year, authorized personnel in Oakland will be able access multiple video feeds from a large swath of the city, along… Read More ›
ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to remove a controversial request by its sheriff’s department to purchase an unmanned aerial aircraft at Tuesday’s meeting. The request is buried… Read More ›
