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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 14h

SPD works with ICE. ICE just has to claim its for a "criminal" matter

The recent legislation expanding mass surveillance spelled this out: "While the City cooperates with federal immigration authorities in criminal matters, it does not do so in civil immigration matters except as required by law."

Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’
www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

HardPressed

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 1d

“Even if Flock took a stance on permitted use-cases, a motivated user could simply lie about why they're performing a search." - Even Flock employees admit "guardrails" on how mass surveillance gets used don't protect anyone

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 1d

Your Ring camera is going to start using facial recognition to further track & record every time you enter & leave your home.

The main people your Ring camera surveils are you and your neighbors; mostly you.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Analysis: For the first time, Amazon is adding facial recognition to its home security doorbells and video cameras.

The feature will be optional for Ring device owners.

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4d

“The judge or the prosecutor doesn't know which portions were written by the AI and which portions were written by the officer,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told KPBS News. “It interjects a lot of uncertainty — and a lot of deniability for the officer.” www.kpbs.org/news/public...

Chula Vista, police reports and AI: What you need to know

San Diego County's second-largest city is embracing AI tools for policing as California considers new regulations.

www.kpbs.org

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 6d

Charlottesville has joined the list of cities pulling back on police surveillance because no "guardrails" can keep ICE & the feds from getting the data.

www.29news.com/2025/06/20/c...

Charlottesville Police hits brakes on new technology amid concerns over data access

“There’s just a concern right now that the federal government could get access to data like that,” Police Chief Michael Kochis said.

www.29news.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 9d

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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404 Media @404media.co · 7d

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 7d

Like collecting more surveillance data that the feds can then try to co-opt. Nothing could go wrong with this plan.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d

Seattle Councilmember Bob Kettle, expressing "shock" at Trump's announcement that he plans to send the military into more "dangerous" cities, just said (in the context of public safety at Seattle Center) that the threat makes it "even more imperative that we do think was right here in the city."

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 8d

SPD claiming CCTV cameras "reduce crime" again

20 days ago when approving SPD's massive CCTV expansion (despite massive community opposition), council said CCTV was only for investigating and no one at the city claimed they prevent crime so pointing out they don't prevent violence was meaningless.

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 9d

A great book what police training actually is: nyupress.org/978147981327...

Its available at the Seattle library: seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...

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404 Media @404media.co · 13d

Surveillance companies justify helping ICE and Trump with ‘democracy’

“It's not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.”

🔗 www.404media.co/how-surveill...

How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump

Multiple Palantir and Flock sources say the companies are spinning a commitment to "democracy" to absolve them of responsibility. "In my eyes, it is the classic double speak," one said.

www.404media.co

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 12d

What does SPD do with its $0.5 billion annual budget? Runs operations targeting shoplifting.

Multiple detectives & patrol officers were involved. This is what SPD decides to do. Don't ever believe SPD can't do something because it doesn't have enough cops

www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/09/seat...

Seattle Police Department conducts ‘retail theft operation’ at a Capitol Hill QFC — UPDATE: $281.91

Noontime shoppers inside a Capitol Hill QFC grocery store mixed with some unusual customers last Thursday. Seattle Police detectives and East Precinct patrol officers were inside the Broadway at Pi…

www.capitolhillseattle.com

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 13d

Onstar was tracking the car via GPS and offered to remotely disable the car for SPD. Again, surveillance isn't safety.

www.divestspd.com/p/ignoring-o...

DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 14d

See also the time Englund disobeyed orders and chased a stolen car through an occupied park in Des Moines, then bumped it off a bridge with a child inside.

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 15d

SPD again using CCTV to detain whoever they want.

"The youth’s clothing also did not match the surveillance footage"

www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-pr...

DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 16d

DivestSPD MVP Stephen Englund is at it again!

Officer Englund was investigating a stolen truck and apparently just snatched up the first Black man he saw.

Read about it at divestspd (dot) com

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 17d

Why isn't the cop sales tax going to the voters the same way the B&O tax change is ? Because cop taxes are deeply unpopular. Cops in Des Moines tried to do a cop property tax in 2024 and it lost by a large, 12 point, margin. ballotpedia.org/Des_Moines,_...

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 18d

Harrell Proposes New Sales Tax to Expand CARE Team, Fund Treatment, and Backfill Budget
About half the $39 million would backfill spending on existing programs; the rest would shore up the city's crisis response system and fund new treatment beds.

publicola.com/2025/09/19/h...

Harrell Proposes New Sales Tax to Expand CARE Team, Fund Treatment, and Backfill Budget - PubliCola

About half the $39 million in funding from the sales tax increase would backfill spending on existing programs; the rest…

publicola.com

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 18d

Info on the massive disparities in how much people get surveilled by the police. 1 person was tracked by police ALPRs 4 times a day, the other person was tracked 14 times over 6 1/2 hours.

How those disparities play out in Seattle, www.instagram.com/p/C8UfSv_p1z...

www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Police cameras tracked one driver 526 times in four months, lawsuit says

Flock Safety says it has become “the largest public-private safety network” in the country.

www.nbcnews.com

Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 18d

The proposed modification to the B&O tax (tax businesses pay) exempts the first $2M of sales by a businesses. Businesses making less than $2M will pay $0.

There's no similar exemption for the sales tax. People making minimum wage and less still pay it.

DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 19d

Harrell proposes regressive tax for non-police repsonse neutered by police protection racket

FTFY

Headline: Seattle mayor proposes sales tax hike for nonpolice response force

[Picture of Oaf mayor standing in front of a fire truck behind a podium with people, including the fire chief and city council president Sara Nelson, behind him.

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404 Media @404media.co · 22d

Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE.

🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching

New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

www.404media.co

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

Trump did not leave Chicago. He just didn't send the National Guard. Instead, he sent his deportation thugs. And in some ways, that's quite a bit worse.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 22d

Community members weren't exaggerating when they said ICE was disappearing people in WA state.

Council members Kettle, Nelson, Juarez, Rivera, Saka, Solomon, & Hollingsworth all voted to expand mass surveillance anyway.

Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 29d

NEW: The @uwchr.bsky.social found that ICE and CBP are disappearing Washington residents. What does this mean? Read online at Gossip Guy, or find it in print @realchangenews.bsky.social later this week:
gossipguy.net/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP are disappearing Washingtonians. What does that mean?

A human rights watchdog alleges the federal agencies have grossly violated international law A new report from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) has reached a startling con...

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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 23d

Folks are rightfully outraged over Brian Kilmeade's remarks, but "Just kill them" is official policy in nearly every US city.

Sweeping the homeless constantly, like Mayor Bruce does, and denying them the basic things they need to sustain life, is "Just kill them" by another method.

No Words
Fox Host Says to ‘Just Kill ‘Em’ While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help
Kilmeade suggested “involuntary lethal injection” for unhoused people suffering mental health issues. He walked back the remarks days later

By Althea Legaspi

September 13, 2025

[Picture of Fox and Friends Host Brian Kilmeade, middle aged white man in a blue suit, looking forlorn]

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 25d

Westneat calls public housing "socialism" while corporate bailouts are just "capitalism."

The real question: Why is investing in families "fantastical" but investing in police surveillance "necessary"?

Classic media gatekeeping 🧵1/3

Editorial illustration of a seesaw in a public square. Left side: woman gesturing to icons of housing, plant, book, labeled “UNREALISTIC.” Right side: man in suit beside surveillance camera and fence, labeled “NECESSARY.” A slumped figure sits at the fulcrum, highlighting imbalance.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 28d

Seattle City Council Promises Federal Government Won’t Abuse Surveillance Camera Expansion, Only Local One: tinyurl.com/2y5pmphs

Seattle police officer in riot gear brandishing a baton at two young women in Capitol Hill

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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 26d

And SPD has a history of using CCTV footage to arrest innocent people: www.fox13seattle.com/news/charges...

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