LBPD Surveillance
The LBPD’s Drone Program: Four Drones, Zero Departmental Policy, and Yet Another Reason for the Passage of a Surveillance Equipment Transparency Ordinance
Share this…FacebookTwitterRedditEmail During last summer’s protests, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had drones and AS350 helicopters in the air over 15 cities across the country collecting hundreds of hours of footage of Black Lives Matters protests. The data was fed into what DHS calls the “big pipe”—a database used by the Federal agencies and…
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The Surveillance Architecture of Long Beach: A Decade of LBPD Facial Recognition Technology Use with Inadequate Policy, Oversight, and Transparency (Abridged Version)
The LBPD has conducted over 4,000 facial recognition searches in the last decade, using both government and private databases.
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The Surveillance Architecture of Long Beach: A Decade of LBPD Facial Recognition Technology Use with Inadequate Policy, Oversight, and Transparency (Full Report)
Share this…FacebookTwitterRedditEmail This is a longer version of a report we have also published as an abridged article. That version is about 1/3 the length. As this is a complex topic that has not been explored in Long Beach this report quite detailed and about a 45-minute read. Those with a personal or professional interest…
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The Surveillance Architecture of Long Beach: LBPD Vendors and the Paycheck Protection Program
Share this…FacebookTwitterRedditEmail The public’s first indication that the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program forgivable loans were not being distributed as intended was when large, publicly-traded companies, such as JP Morgan Chase, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and Shake Shack were able to obtain loans as large as $20 million—while true small businesses were unable to…
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The Surveillance Architecture of Long Beach: Advanced Cameras
Share this…FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Freedom Surveillance may sound like someone’s attempt to coin a new oxymoron—like jumbo shrimp or civil war—but it is actually the name of the Arizona-based company that manufactured the high-tech, truck-mounted camera the Long Beach Police Department deployed at a morning Peace Walk organized by Black Lives Matter Long Beach (BLM LBC) on…
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