The Medford Police Department is Building a Network of Mass Surveillance Through Controversial Collaborations With ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and Law Enforcement Agencies (info4publicuse.org)
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 18:17
https://programming.dev/post/32328151

Major components of the surveillance network include the use of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology, and monitoring of social media through “sock puppet” accounts. Meanwhile, Jackson County is using a third-party lease to make its publicly owned building available to ICE for its Southern Oregon field office, creating another “backdoor” for local government resources to be utilized by ICE despite Oregon’s status as a “sanctuary state.”

Our latest trove of public records total 313 pages. Below is an overview of the records, which were obtained through public records requests to the city of Medford, the city of Grants Pass, and Jackson County. We provide a downloadable copy of the records at the bottom of this blog post.

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