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

Another surveillance vendor got caught sharing data with ICE. Pretending any surveillance vendor won't or that guardrails can stop it is dangerous. All surveillance companies do this, it isn't just 1 or 2 bad apples. abc7chicago.com/post/illinoi...

How far can SPD’s CCTV cameras see? SPD currently uses Axis Q6100-E/Q6135-LE CCTV cameras. Per Axis, the camera can: • Detect at a distance of 6,014 feet, over 1.1 miles • Observe at 2,385 feet • Recognize at 1,200 feet, 4 football fields • Identify at 600 feet, 2 football fields

The consent decree was never about "transforming" SPD or ensuring constitutional policing. If it was, it was a complete failure. It was about rehabbing SPD's image, ballooning its budget, and blocking any meaningful changes to policing in Seattle. www.hardpressed-info.com/federal-judg...

“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie.

Great reporting by @divestspd.bsky.social, more info on how much police departments share surveillance data, including with the Feds, and how cops make up reasons to justify searching surveillance data for specific vehicles & people www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...

Now we have the chief of the entire Aurora PD confirming that Flocks don't just passively capture license plate information and vehicle stills, they record video that can be used in investigations--contrary to everything they've ever told us. @404media.co sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora...

SPD has started integrating private cameras into its RTCC. SPD, and everyone it shares data with, already has warrantless on-demand access to 456 private cameras. communityconnectseattle.org This makes everyone less safe. www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

Sprawling police surveillance is coming to Seattle. The Council votes on Sept 9 DivestSPD’s Justin Ward and Stop Surveillance City’s BJ Last talk about what’s at stake this week on the Burner Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/17ja...

Seattle bought Fusus due to a sales pitch by someone from Atlanta PD who was also on Axon's Board. Seattle officials if you really were "duped" & would have affected our procurement decision" if you'd known, don't expand Fusus & SPD's citywide camera network. tinyurl.com/stop-cctv

Here's what SPD's proposed expansion of CCTV looks like. It isn't expanding into just certain areas, its going citywide. tinyurl.com/stop-cctv

SPOG President says DC is a “blueprint” of Trump’s future public safety actions across the nation notesfromtheemeraldcity.com/spog-preside...

A widespread data-sharing program with ICE supports local and state budgets nationwide—even in so-called sanctuary cities and states that forbid certain law enforcement cooperation and information sharing with ICE.

The Seattle City Council will be voting on expanding mass surveillance on Tue. 9/9 at 2pm. The Seattle Renters' Commission urges the council to reject this expansion and protect renters’ privacy, autonomy, and safety. See the full statement from the Commission here: www.seattle.gov/documents/Bo...

🧵At the time of publishing, I was aware of 4 Seattle PD officers that had attended training inside Israel. After reviewing new records, it appears that 10 Seattle PD officers have received training in Israel. The additional SPD Israeli trainees include.....

Not convinced that jail & incarceration are only for poor people? No one from Uber spent a minute in jail or is facing prosecution. They didn't even have to interact with the cops since wage theft is handled by the Office of Labor Standards. www.workingwa.org/for-media/20...

Good video on ALPRs & surveillance in general www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9M...

If you don't think Seattle cops make too much money, read this: www.divestspd.com/p/nearly-400...

Microsoft tells France the US Federal Government/Trump can get access to data on French citizens stored in France by US companies www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/m... Anyone buy SPD & City Council's claim that Trump won't be able to access SPD's data due to "contract language"? tinyurl.com/stop-cctv

Remember how Flock kept claiming immigration officials don't have direct access to Flock's nationwide surveillance network? That was a lie. Flock gave Border Patrol access. www.9news.com/article/news...

SPD's Real-Time Crime Center has its own logo. Its a camera lens looking at all of Seattle, nothing dystopian about that at all. SPD only got this technology because city council & the mayor ignored massive community opposition to it (and CCTV) including from the people they appointed to the CSWG

Department of Homeland security grants are going to start requiring cooperation with ICE. SPD receives grants from DHS every year (over $2.4M in 2025). www.instagram.com/p/DNTpv-qOKfK/

"It’s not too surprising that guardrails can’t work here. In today’s day and age, companies like Flock are too nimble and well-resourced (not to mention unscrupulous) to constrain with policy changes here and there. The easiest and most effective solution? Don’t use the tech."

Trump Takes Over SPD, No One Notices: tinyurl.com/mwsukadb

Correction: The innocent person was jailed for a month, not a week.

To recap: yesterday Trump seized federal control of DC's police department and is sending in the national guard. In response, Seattle is expanding SPD's surveillance capabilities only a few months into what was supposed to be a 2 year pilot. Five Seattle CMs voted TODAY to approve the proposal.

An extra layer of police surveillance, but only in the places where the apartment buildings are

What this article neglects to say is that Redmond is rolling out *FLOCK* license plate readers. 404 Media reported that ICE has been tapping into the Flock data network. Unclear from this reporting if the City of Redmond has instituted additional data privacy protocols given this information.

Today Trump took control of the DC police department. Tomorrow Seattle Public Safety Committee will vote on increasing mass surveillance by police. No laws, contract language, or other supposed "guardrails" will keep the Trump Administration from using that surveillance data. tinyurl.com/stop-cctv

SPD's use of CCTV footage led to SPD arresting an innocent person. The person was interrogated by police for over 10 hours and then jailed for a week before charges were eventually dropped. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Doubt this will make the next propaganda video for SPD's RTCC

Related to SPD's mass surveillance because in addition to the data being shared by SPD it can also be hacked