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Bay Area transit system approves new surveillance-oversight policy
On Thursday, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors voted to approve a new policy that requires that it be notified if the local police department wishes to acquire new surveillance equipment.
BART is one of the largest mass transit agencies in northern California, with a system that stretches from the San Francisco International Airport, through San Francisco itself, across to Oakland, north to Antioch and south to Fremont—adjacent to Silicon Valley. This new policy puts it in line with a number of other regional cities that impose community oversight on the acquisition and use of surveillance technology. It is believed to be one of the first, if not the first, such policies for a transportation agency in the nation.
[...] The new BART policy was approved just one day after the Bay Area News Group reported that BART police had been using license plate readers at the parking garage at MacArthur station in Oakland for several months beginning in January 2017. The data collected was, in turn, shared with a "fusion center" of federal law enforcement data known as the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center.
Somehow, the MacArthur license plate reader (LPR) system was installed months after the Board had voted in 2016 to delay installation of the high-speed scanners until a policy for their use could be drafted.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Monday September 17 2018, @08:58AM (1 child)
> Even better, fund permanent housing for the homeless.
We have pretty good welfare services in the UK but still get homeless people. The reason for homelessness are usually quite complex. Economic problems are usually one part of a complex bag also with mental and physical health issues.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 17 2018, @07:32PM
-tic violence. I have a good friend who ran away from home at sixteen because her father sexually assaulted her.
There is no damn good reason for _anyone_ to be homeless in the Soviet Republic Of Canuckistan but even so, Vancouver BC's Downtown Eastside is chock full o' homeless folks. This because the Downtown Eastside is Canada's Ground Zero for heroin and crystal meth.
I once turned up a photograph of a bird's nest made out of syringes. I Am Not Fucking Kidding.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]