Law & Disorder

What is FLOCK surveillance w/ EFF’s Sarah Hamid; Oakland Police Commission w/ Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer

Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, raising serious concerns about privacy, civil liberties, and potential misuse. On this episode, we speak to Sarah Hamid, Director of Strategic Programming at Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Also on this episode, we speak with Ricardo Garcia Acosta  and Omar Farmer, the outgoing chair and alternate chairs of the Oakland Police Commission. The Oakland City Council rejected their reappointments to the Police Commission last month.

Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Tiny aka “PovertySkola,” a formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork.

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