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Transparency: Federal drug agency dismantles secret surveillance program

donal brown December 15, 2015

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has agreed to stop collecting telephone records  placed by Americans to overseas locations. It also agreed to destroy its data base of international calls collected secretly from the 1990s to 2013.  (Electronic Frontier Foundation, December 14, 2015, by Mark Rumold) In August a federal judge ordered the DEA to release details of its secret, unauthorized program to the Human Rights Watch. The order was of note since never before had

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EFF, ACLU press California Supreme Court to release data from automated license plate readers

donal brown October 27, 2015

EFF and the ACLU is asking the California Supreme Court to release data of the automated license plate readers in Los Angeles County. The police refuse to release the records arguing that they concern ongoing investigations. An appeals court agreed with the police. (Ars Technica, October 27, 2015, by Cyrus Farivar) The civil liberties organizations say the public should be allowed to find out how the license plate readers are used. They argue that it

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Pulling Back the Blue Curtain: Police, Privacy and Public Exposure – Nov. 10, SF Public Library

FAC October 20, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”173403″ img_size=”600 × 226″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ultimate_heading main_heading=”JOIN US” main_heading_color=”#080087″ alignment=”left” spacer=”line_only” spacer_position=”bottom” line_height=”5″ main_heading_font_family=”font_family:Raleway|font_call:Raleway|variant:800″ main_heading_font_size=”desktop:24px;” main_heading_line_height=”desktop:24px;” line_width=”1″ spacer_margin=”margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:800;”] [/ultimate_heading][vc_column_text]In California the public has virtually NO access to police records–records of criminal investigations and records of internal reviews of police conduct.  Most other states provide greater public access. Law enforcement defends California’s high degree of secrecy as necessary to protect due process rights of police, the integrity of ongoing investigations, and the privacy

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A&A: City misses CPRA request deadlines “due to staff vacancies”?

FAC October 12, 2015

Q: My friend and I first requested financial records for two affordable housing projects receiving government subsidies on August 19. The City responded on August 27 informing us that due to staff vacancies they could not fulfill our request, and that they would provide a status update by October 1. On September 4, we responded to the City via email, requesting that we be given access to the subject records or copies of these records by September

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Join Us – Pulling Back the Blue Curtain, Sept. 19. 2016, Irvine

FAC October 7, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”80423″ img_size=”full”][ultimate_heading main_heading=”JOIN US” main_heading_color=”#080087″ alignment=”left” spacer=”line_only” spacer_position=”bottom” line_height=”5″ main_heading_font_family=”font_family:Raleway|font_call:Raleway|variant:800″ main_heading_font_size=”desktop:24px;” main_heading_line_height=”desktop:24px;” line_width=”1″ spacer_margin=”margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;” main_heading_style=”font-weight:800;”] [/ultimate_heading][vc_column_text]In California the public has virtually NO access to police records–records of criminal investigations and records of internal reviews of police conduct.  Most other states provide greater public access. Law enforcement defends California’s high degree of secrecy as necessary to protect due process rights of police, the integrity of ongoing investigations, and the privacy of witnesses and suspects.  Critics

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