AgdaPkt 2017-09-11 Closed and Joint SA PFA

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6.1.D. - Page 11 Here is a sampling of the responses: • Surveillance is: questionable • Surveillance is: important • Surveillance can be used against a peaceful public • Surveillance is: Technology run amok. Just because we can do it, should we do it? • Surveillance is: Everywhere. Privacy is a myth in the digital era • Surveillance is: State violence • Surveillance is: Not a solution to the systemic problems that create crime and violence. Surveillance No! Education, Equity and Respect,Yes! • Surveillance is: Great!!! Bring it on. It's for my safety, your safety. Nothing to hide14 Privacy advocates have pointed out the impact that surveillance technology may have on residents: "Our concerns stem from the fact that license plate readers can scan and collect the information of innocent people, innocent drivers," said Chris Conley, a policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. "Location information can reveal very sensitive information about people. If they're visiting a church, or a clinic or even open-mic night at a bar, all of these things reveal information about a person that shouldn't be sitting in a database somewhere."15 Case in point: One San Leandro resident's eye-opening experience After learning that the city of San Leandro had purchased an ALPR for its Police Department in 2008, computer security consultant Michael Katz-Lacabe asked city officials to send him a record of every instance the scanners photographed his car. An article on sfgate.com describes what Mr. Katz-Lacabe learned: The results shocked him. The paperback-size device, installed on the outside of police cars, can log thousands of license plates in an eight-hour patrol shift. Katz-Lacabe said it had photographed his two cars on 112 occasions, including one image from 2009 that shows him and his daughters stepping out of his Toyota Prius in their driveway. That photograph, Katz-Lacabe said, made him "frightened and concerned about the magnitude of police surveillance and data collection." The single patrol car in San Leandro equipped with a plate reader had logged his car once a week on average, photographing his license plate and documenting the time and location.16 14 Cole Goins,"What Oakland,California,residents think about police surveillance,"Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting,August 18,2015.https://www.revealnews.org/article/what-oakland-califoniia-residents-think-about-police- surveillance/. 15 Samantha Weigel,"Who's watching who?:License plate readers used throughout San Mateo County,"The Daily Journal, April 8,2015.http://www.smdailyjoumal.com/articles/lnews/2015-04-08/whos-watching-who-license-plate-readers-used- throughout-san-mateo-county/1776425141346.htm1 16 Ali Winston,"License plate readers tracking cars,"SFGate,June 25,2013.http://www.sfgate.comibayarea/article/License- plate-readers-tracking-cars-4622476.php. 2016-2017 San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury 4