"The bottom line is that the public simply can't count on these kinds of logs to be a reliable check against the enormous power that its mass surveillance system is placing in the hands of law enforcement." No to mass surveillance! 🚫 Cancel #Flock! 🚫 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

"[R]easonable suspicion now means the police stop the person...and [that person] has to prove to them that [they] didn't commit a crime to be released."

"It’s pretty bold of Harrell to call this a completed contract when in reality, huge chunks of this agreement remain up in the air." @hannahkrieg.bsky.social @divestspd.bsky.social www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-ce...

An action against surveillance for those living in Redmond:

HOLY FUCKING BASED: Eddie Lin proposes REPEALING sales tax hike and replacing it with capital gains, a tax that doesn't screw over poor people. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/council...

“Ring’s new partnership with Flock shows that the company is more interested in contributing to mounting authoritarianism than servicing the specific needs of their customers,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...

ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn. A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.

This was a funding decision by Eugene, they've had years to come up with stable funding for CAHOOTS (non-police response). CAHOOTS was a massive success, a model program, cheap, & operated for 35 years. www.opb.org/article/2025...

My latest on how the 2023 drug law is going in Seattle. It's having a disproportionate impact on Black people, particularly Black men, causing folks to make parallels to the War on Drugs. I also provide updated SODA order numbers (spoiler: the number has gone up).

Not surprising that a mayor expanding mass surveillance of poor people, immigrants, LGBTQIA+ community, & BIPOC communities also violates open records laws to block to public from knowing what he's doing.

At first I was confused as to why Seattle CMs felt the need to pontificate about not cutting public safety and SPD investments since no one is suggesting that. Then I realized they're teeing up for a conversation about cuts after the revenue forecast on Monday.

OUTRAGEOUS: City Council approved the Mayor's sales tax increase knowing full well we already have the highest sales tax in the country and they have a LIST of progressive options to choose from instead www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-co...

From @wyden.senate.gov, “Abuse of Flock cameras is inevitable, and Flock has made it clear it takes no responsibility to prevent or detect that. For that reason, I must now recommend that communities that have installed Flock cameras reevaluate that decision.” www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...

OPINION: The dangers of increased Seattle police surveillance: A failure of our city council (via @gabitreece.bsky.social) www.dailyuw.com/article/the-...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

By Enabling Police Surveillance, Elected Officials Fuel Trump’s Agenda truthout.org/articles/by-...

Gov. Newsom vetoes bill restricting use of license plate reader data. The restrictions he vetoed were incredibly mild. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/09/g...

Stop Surveillance City's October Newsletter is out. Not on our newsletter list? You can read it on our website. stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/s... You can sign up to receive the newsletter by emailing: [email protected]

SPD works with ICE. ICE just has to claim its for a "criminal" matter The recent legislation expanding mass surveillance spelled this out: "While the City cooperates with federal immigration authorities in criminal matters, it does not do so in civil immigration matters except as required by law."

“Even if Flock took a stance on permitted use-cases, a motivated user could simply lie about why they're performing a search." - Even Flock employees admit "guardrails" on how mass surveillance gets used don't protect anyone

Your Ring camera is going to start using facial recognition to further track & record every time you enter & leave your home. The main people your Ring camera surveils are you and your neighbors; mostly you.

“The judge or the prosecutor doesn't know which portions were written by the AI and which portions were written by the officer,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told KPBS News. “It interjects a lot of uncertainty — and a lot of deniability for the officer.” www.kpbs.org/news/public...

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

Charlottesville has joined the list of cities pulling back on police surveillance because no "guardrails" can keep ICE & the feds from getting the data. www.29news.com/2025/06/20/c...

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Like collecting more surveillance data that the feds can then try to co-opt. Nothing could go wrong with this plan.

SPD claiming CCTV cameras "reduce crime" again 20 days ago when approving SPD's massive CCTV expansion (despite massive community opposition), council said CCTV was only for investigating and no one at the city claimed they prevent crime so pointing out they don't prevent violence was meaningless.

A great book what police training actually is: nyupress.org/978147981327... Its available at the Seattle library: seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...

Surveillance companies justify helping ICE and Trump with ‘democracy’ “It's not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.” 🔗 www.404media.co/how-surveill...

What does SPD do with its $0.5 billion annual budget? Runs operations targeting shoplifting. Multiple detectives & patrol officers were involved. This is what SPD decides to do. Don't ever believe SPD can't do something because it doesn't have enough cops www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/09/seat...

Onstar was tracking the car via GPS and offered to remotely disable the car for SPD. Again, surveillance isn't safety. www.divestspd.com/p/ignoring-o...

SPD again using CCTV to detain whoever they want. "The youth’s clothing also did not match the surveillance footage" www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-pr...

Why isn't the cop sales tax going to the voters the same way the B&O tax change is ? Because cop taxes are deeply unpopular. Cops in Des Moines tried to do a cop property tax in 2024 and it lost by a large, 12 point, margin. ballotpedia.org/Des_Moines,_...

Info on the massive disparities in how much people get surveilled by the police. 1 person was tracked by police ALPRs 4 times a day, the other person was tracked 14 times over 6 1/2 hours. How those disparities play out in Seattle, www.instagram.com/p/C8UfSv_p1z... www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

The proposed modification to the B&O tax (tax businesses pay) exempts the first $2M of sales by a businesses. Businesses making less than $2M will pay $0. There's no similar exemption for the sales tax. People making minimum wage and less still pay it.

Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE. 🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Trump did not leave Chicago. He just didn't send the National Guard. Instead, he sent his deportation thugs. And in some ways, that's quite a bit worse.

Community members weren't exaggerating when they said ICE was disappearing people in WA state. Council members Kettle, Nelson, Juarez, Rivera, Saka, Solomon, & Hollingsworth all voted to expand mass surveillance anyway.

Folks are rightfully outraged over Brian Kilmeade's remarks, but "Just kill them" is official policy in nearly every US city. Sweeping the homeless constantly, like Mayor Bruce does, and denying them the basic things they need to sustain life, is "Just kill them" by another method.

Westneat calls public housing "socialism" while corporate bailouts are just "capitalism." The real question: Why is investing in families "fantastical" but investing in police surveillance "necessary"? Classic media gatekeeping 🧵1/3

Seattle City Council Promises Federal Government Won’t Abuse Surveillance Camera Expansion, Only Local One: tinyurl.com/2y5pmphs

And SPD has a history of using CCTV footage to arrest innocent people: www.fox13seattle.com/news/charges...

Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU

"After this vote, constituents should never again take their representative seriously when they finger wave at facism, when they beat their chest in the direction of D.C., when they trash talk Trump." Fantastic write up of yesterday's meeting and vote

The pattern is always the same: 1. Manufacture urgency (FIFA! Trump!) 2. Promise "safeguards" 3. Rush through despite opposition 4. Normalize permanent surveillance Seattle just followed the playbook perfectly. 🧵 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

What do the Office of Civil Rights, Community Surveillance Working Group, Seattle Renters Commission, Community Police Commission, & over 60 community groups have in common? All oppose the proposed expansion of CCTV & RTCC stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/o... tinyurl.com/stop-cctv

NEW: The City Council is poised to pass a massive expansion to SPD's surveillance capabilities tomorrow. If they do, they're worse than do-nothing Dems in the face of Fascism. They useful idiots aiding in Trump's quest to disappear our immigrant neighbors. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

The CPC has come out against SPD's proposed expansion to CCTV & RTCC tinyurl.com/stop-cctv CPC's letter: seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

Good news, Divesters! The wait is over. Print editions of our Bad Apple Baseball Cards are finally on sale! All proceeds will fund our exciting new project: a statewide police misconduct database. Buy here: tinyurl.com/DivestCards