by Michael Boldin | Dec 12, 2022 | Audio/Video, Local, Path to Liberty, Police, State Bills, Strategy
After initially approving a new plan to allow police robots to be armed with lethal force, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors faced such a severe public backlash that they actually reversed course and banned the practice, at least for now. But the plan only came...
by Mike Maharrey | Sep 12, 2022 | Drug War, Local
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Sept. 12, 2022) – Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution calling for the decriminalization of psychedelics including psilocybin and ayahuasca. While not legally binding, resolutions can serve as...
by Mike Maharrey | Oct 13, 2020 | Coalitions, Surveillance
The Tenth Amendment Center has signed on to a letter with more than a dozen organizations condemning the illegal use of private cameras by the San Francisco Police Department during protests in the wake of George Floyd. According to a lawsuit filed on behalf of three...
by Mike Maharrey | Oct 8, 2020 | Surveillance
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Oct. 8, 2020) – On Wednesday, local activists filed suit against the City of San Francisco for illegally spying on them during anti-police protests in late May and early June. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU of...
by Michael Boldin | Jul 1, 2019 | Audio/Video, Facial Recognition, Local, Path to Liberty, State Bills, Surveillance
With government and corporate partners aggressively pushing for facial recognition everywhere – airports, public places, police body cams and more – left and right are starting to come together to ban government from using it for surveillance (or anything...
