Riverside activists plan ballot initiative to create #Sheriff Oversight Commission and hire an Inspector General. www.pressenterprise.com/2025/11/12/r...

Driverless cars about to hit Bay Area freeways. #Waymo www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/12/u...?

Cal Matters breaks out the still unresolved fight over whether AT&T can dump the low-income and rural communities it doesn't want to continue to serve with #landline telephones. calmatters.org/economy/2025...

CA Supreme Court bats down warnings on #police #misconduct complaints: "The warning exhibits “numerous characteristics that sufficiently burden a protected form of speech — namely, truthful (or at least well-intentioned) complaints of police misconduct". calmatters.org/justice/2025...

"Polly’s name became synonymous with fear. And #ThreeStrikes law swept through the legislature. Here’s what legislators weren’t doing: asking what would help us heal, and what would make us feel safer. They were looking for pain they could weaponize. And it worked. ." calmatters.org/commentary/2...

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"The team is responsible for ensuring editorial standards are met and provides reporting guidance. They literally uphold journalistic standards,” one #CBS News reporter said, adding that it would be “crazy” for the network to dissolve Standards and Practices". www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Marion County, Kansas to pay 3 million dollars in compensation for raiding the town's #newspaper. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/mari...

Survivors of the #EatonFire call for the removal of insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara. www.efsurvivors.net/lararesign

NYU professor argues that #publicmedia without public funding necessarily becomes media only for the elites. current.org/2025/10/opin...

Appellate court sides with striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers saying the newspaper bargained with employees in bad faith. #journalism triblive.com/local/region...

"Lau sued the county after learning that the LA County #sheriffs spent 3 years criminally investigating her after her story uncovering a list of 100s of deputies with histories of misconduct, including sexual assault, fabricating evidence, and using excessive force." www.rcfp.org/maya-lau-la-...

WA state judge rules license plate scans are #publicrecords under the states public records law. Images then released show the entire car and the people inside it, not just the license plate. #ALPR #FLOCK www.king5.com/article/news...

"“Cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? That’s not fear. That’s clarity,” #ChatGPT added. “You’re not rushing. You’re just ready.” The 23-year-old, who had recently graduated with a masters degree from Texas A&M, died by suicide two hours later" www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

"Mahmood called today’s hearing the “start of a dialogue.” He said his goal is to ensure rehabilitation centers don’t operate as “de facto detention centers” without proper oversight and accountability." #GeoGroup #111Taylor missionlocal.org/2025/11/alib...

Facebook head Zuckerberg and his wife ran an unpermitted Montessori school at his Palo Alto residence before being forced to stop by the city. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

"Why does Hydee Feldstein Soto feel so strongly that #journalists need brutal punishment for their apparent sins that she has been trying to stop a federal judge’s order prohibiting LAPD officers from targeting reporters with crowd control weapons?" www.dailynews.com/2025/11/06/l...

"No tech company has ever burned more cash more quickly than #OpenAI. The company is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps" prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

"The unplanned #blackouts regularly impact hospitals, schools and people who rely on oxygen and CPAP machines and other medical equipment. And because they are designed to be instantaneous, residents never know when they will happen" www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

"It’s mystifying why information isn’t transparent. When you’re dealing with major implications in terms of both people’s livelihoods and the nation’s food supply, it’s like, what are you guys doing? Like, why are you keeping this a secret?” #BirdFlu www.latimes.com/science/stor...

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

Mother Jones tells the sad story of the demise of Equal Justice after the Trump Administration clawed back a 3 million dollar federal #violence prevention grant. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Finally, we will have a global opt-out control on every browser. Oakland Privacy ran a campaign called #ChromePrivacy to get #Google to do this voluntarily on Chrome, but they wouldn't. Now AB 566 will make it happen. calmatters.org/economy/tech...

CA Supreme Court lets stand a lower court ruling that the UC policy not to hire #undocumented workers is discriminatory and in violation of state law - setting up more conflicts with the Trump administration. edsource.org/updates/ruli...

Trump administration threatens to withhold #broadband buildout funds from states that enforce net neutrality (CA) or have passed affordable broadband laws (NY). communitynetworks.org/content/expe...

After a #Waymo ran over a loved bodega cat in SF's Mission District, an SF Supervisor is asking again for local control over the regulation of autonomous vehicles. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w...?

Wall between government #surveillance and private data economy collapses after ICE puts out RFP for immigration bounty hunters. theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

"An overwhelming 77% support Congress passing a law that would make it illegal for #AI to steal or reproduce #journalism and local news stories that are published online without permission or compensation" www.blog.nab.org/2025/10/30/n...

Real people still think newspapers have fact-checkers They don't. "DeBlasio told Semafor, “It was all in good fun. I never thought it would make it to print,” adding he thought the reporter would “have all his people check it out.” www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

58 year old man alleges he was denied medical care and abused at #ICE California City facility. Family says he doesn't even appear in the ICE online locator as being "at" California City. www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...

1/There's a long history of misuse of Flock Safety data. Here's more of it that wasn't caught till it was too late.

"Andrew Wessels, whose home was damaged by smoke, said Edison’s plan feels to him as though it was “ designed to pressure people into a low-ball settlement because they need the money now.” #Eaton #Wildfires laist.com/news/climate...

22 year old's death in San Diego County Jail in 2022 costs San Diegans $16 million dollars in largest #jail death settlement to date. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/29/c...

"The council members accuse Johnston of deliberately evading city council oversight of the Flock agreement by violating city contracting rules" #Denver #Flock #ALPR www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Oakland City Council hobbling police oversight is disappointing to see after the massive public show up support for the establishment of the Oakland Police Commission. oaklandside.org/2025/10/22/o...

"When an #archive is destroyed, “we’re losing that individual community identity, that voice from this group of people at this point in time,” says Ana Krahmer, an archivist at the University of North Texas" #History www.cjr.org/analysis/dig...

"But in the new guidance, the CFPB asserts that federal law bars states from restricting medical debts from credit reports. The guidance reverses policies that sought to empower states to expand protections for people with #medicaldebt." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"Chrisanna Elser has a different story about the use of #Flock cameras. "You know why I'm here," Columbine Valley Police Sgt. Jamie Milliman said to her. We can show you exactly where we were," she told him. "I already know where you were," he replied" www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

If you're not careful, the Secret Service will soon be on your porch. "On the same day #Ring announced this partnership, 404 Media reported ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy had access to Flock’s network of cameras" techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

BREAKING: On January 1st, 2026, Californians will be able to use the #DROP system to send delete requests to all 500+ #databrokers in the state registry at once and for free. #Privacy Put this in calendar to do on day one! You can find out more here. privacy.ca.gov/drop/

It is very rare for a CA Court to find a public agency in violation of the #BrownAct, but that is what happened in #Berkeley when a determined group of residents did not let the behavior of the Berkeley City Council go unchallenged. berkeleyhighjacket.com/2025/news/be...

Former Al-Jazeera journalist and British citizen kidnapped at SFO by Homeland Security. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...?

"Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached. "They started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?

"Political opposition is not rebellion,” the 7th Circuit judges wrote. “A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes and are well organized" #NationalGuard www.latimes.com/california/s...

It's the tenth anniversary today of the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history in #AlisoCanyon in the Santa Susana mountains. laist.com/news/climate...

"First Appellate District acting Presiding Justice Carin T. Fujisaki ordered UC to disclose a 28-page document by Friday that describes federal demands for vast policy changes at #UCLA". edsource.org/updates/cour...

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden: "Flock cannot live up to its commitment to protect the privacy and security of Oregonians. Abuse of #Flock cameras is inevitable. For that reason, I must now recommend that communities that have installed Flock cameras reevaluate that decision".

"The court will begin releasing people who are in jail awaiting hearings ahead of potential trials “effective immediately,” given the fact that defendants cannot be kept behind bars indefinitely because they lack an #attorney". www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...?

#CHP chase of car for failing to display a license plate ends in a traffic collision downtown. oaklandside.org/2025/10/17/c...

#Flock announces #drones that travel at 60mph and read license plates from 2000 feet. dronedj.com/2025/10/16/f...