11 cities plan to force cops to disclose secret surveillance technologies used

Today, 11 cities have had enough secret police surveillance that they are kicking off legislative efforts to push for greater transparency and community control over that surveillance. These cities, spread across the nation, are part of the “Community Control Over Police Surveillance” initiative; together, they are sending a strong message: “The secret, unchecked local use of surveillance technologies, which threatens our fundamental civil rights and civil liberties, is no longer acceptable.”

“TakeCTRL” is a nationwide push for the people, not the police, to take control of what surveillance is used. “In most cities, the rapidly growing use of local surveillance technologies, which are regularly acquired in secret and used in secret, is unchecked,” the ACLU wrote. “It is not uncommon for a city’s elected officials to be unaware of what surveillance technologies have been deployed by their police. This must stop.”

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