There's a lot packed in to City Surveillance Watch. The idea is to learn from it. That's why we've made it easy to go back and revisit the articles, studies and other information presented in the series.
If you notice any references are missing or if you need additional information, please reach out at [email protected]. Thanks again for listening.
General resources
- Mobility Data Specification
- ACLU Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS)
- Ban Facial Recognition map
- NCSL Automated License Plate Readers: State Statutes
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Cell-Site Simulator Guidance
- U.S. Department of Justice Privacy Act of 1974
- Banned in PDX podcast
- ShotSpotter - List of cities and 2020 Q3 earnings call
Reports & studies
- The Brookings Institute: Benefits and Best Practices of Safety City Innovation (2017)
- Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology: America Under Watch (2019)
- NIST: Face Recognition Vendor Test Part 3: Demographic Effects (2019)
- Omdia: Safe Cities Market Brief (2020)
- Automatic License Plate Recognition market report (2020)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: Surveillance Compounded: Real-Time Crime Centers in the United States (2020)
Articles & books
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne (2015)
- Detroit City Council approves $4 million for Real Time Crime Center, Detroit Free Press (July 2019)
- Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring is Scripted or Approved by Ring, Gizmodo (July 2019)
- Revealed: The Secret Scripts Amazon Gives to Cops to Promote Ring Surveillance Cameras, Vice (Aug. 2019)
- California Becomes Third State to Ban Facial Recognition Software in Police Body Cameras, Security Today (Oct. 2019)
- Why Is a Tech Executive Installing Security Cameras Around San Francisco?, The New York Times (July 2020)
- Portland Passes Groudbreaking Ban on Facial Recognition in Stores, Banks, Restaurants and More, OneZero (Sept. 2020)
- Vermont lawmakers approve ban on facial recognition technology, WCAX3, (Oct. 2020)
- New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other surveillance tech, The Lens (Dec. 2020)
- Calls to 'defund the police' are upending FY21 budgets. Here's how, Smart Cities Dive (Jan. 2021)
Location-specific info
- Detroit:
- Crime Intelligence Unit: Project Green Light Presentation (Aug. 2020)
- Minneapolis: Data Privacy Principles 2020
- New Orleans:
- New Orleans Real Time Crime Center
- New Orleans City Council, Dec. 17, 2020 meeting minutes
- New Orleans Police Department policies
- New Zealand: Ministry of Health, COVID-19 Contact Tracing Application Privacy Impact Assessment
- Oakland, CA:
- Seattle:
