Flame-throwing #robot dog with #napalm is yours for only $9420 as the war comes home. Not in CA though. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/

U.S. House considering bill to allow the US Treasury to quickly strip #nonprofit status for accusations of supporting #terrorism. https://reason.com/2024/04/24/this-bill-would-give-the-treasury-nearly-unlimited-power-to-destroy-nonprofits/?

#Google fires 28 workers for taking that "don't be evil" thing too seriously. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2024/04/19/1245757317/google-worker-says-the-company-is-silencing-our-voices-after-dozens-are-fired/

Notes found by #Alameda County prosecuters show the office seeking to keep Black and Jewish people off of #juries in the 1980's and 1990's, which is illegal. Federal judge asks DA Price to review all #deathpenalty convictions prosecuted by the office for similar prosecutorial misconduct. https://www.kqed.org/news/11983705/allegations-of-prosecutorial-bias-spark-review-of-death-penalty-convictions-in-alameda-county?

Brechner Insitute study confirms that #FOIA and state public records acts work better for corporations than for journalists, researchers and the general public. https://brechner.org/2024/04/16/study-average-americans-more-likely-to-be-shut-out-of-government-records-process/

Sweeping #homeless encampments is a growing private business that profits off your tax dollars and human misery. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/us-homeless-encampments-companies-profiting-sweeps

AT&T lost 73 million social security numbers and lied about it for years. #databreach https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/att-takes-2-years-to-confirm-leaked-data-belongs-to-millions-of-customers/

La Prensa wins lawsuit against Chula Vista refusal to release all and any drone footage in response to public records act lawsuit. A city cannot call all #drone footage "investigatory records". https://timesofsandiego.com/tech/2024/04/11/chula-vista-loses-on-police-drone-video-in-landmark-state-high-court-decision/

Chicago police make a traffic stop for a seat belt violation. Then they shot 96 times in 41 seconds. #trafficstops #pretextstops https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/09/seatbelt-check-cops-fired-96-shots-at-black-motorist-killing-him/73265324007/

Video records extracted by Joey Scott (KnockLA) show that San Bernardino Sheriffs shot and killed a kidnapped 15 year girl. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/california-police-video-shooting-15-year-old-girl-savannah-graziano

More evidence from Boston that #Shotspotter just runs #police around in circles. https://data.aclum.org/2024/04/08/boston-shotspotter/

LA County paid out more than a quarter billion dollars (yes - with a "b") for law enforcement misconduct in 2023 and is off to a healthy start for 2024. https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/la-county-isaias-cervantes-25-million-settlement

Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza largely directed by artificial intelligence. #Gaza #AI https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

San Francisco's #PropE was funded by a man called a "serial scofflaw" by the U.S. Government and fined 2 billion dollars for repeatedly breaking the law. https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/chris-larsen-ripple-sec-xrp-torres-gensler/

CA's Post Board has already started the process to decertify 200 #police officers across the state, But we don't know exactly why. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/police-misconduct-records-19364084.php?

Colorado follows California's lead and becomes the 2nd state to ban the corrupt terminology #exciteddelirium as a cause of death. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-becomes-second-state-ban-excited-delirium/

"Three times since December, a white city-owned Toyota sedan affixed with a half-dozen small cameras has cruised through South San Jose to collect footage of parked cars and RVs. The images were then fed into different #AI systems developed by four private companies to determine whether people were living inside the vehicles". https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/07/san-jose-ai-homeless-camps-rvs/?

"The Energy and Policy Institute’s request for calendars “is sufficiently specific, focused, and limited, and the public interest in disclosure sufficiently compelling when measured against the minimal impact on government decisionmaking,” #PublicRecords https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/cpuc-calendar-meetings-19388316.php?

The first anti-fascist conspiracy case is being litigated in San Diego. " He argued that Stephan had shown her bias with a controversial 2018 campaign website that featured a menacing image of #antifa marchers behind a superimposed photo of George Soros". https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2024-04-02/trial-opens-in-first-of-its-kind-antifa-conspiracy-case-arising-from-pacific-beach-political-clash

"Frankel was diagnosed with epilepsy and was having a seizure when police entered his bedroom on Aug. 29, 2022. The tasing of someone who has just had a neurological event is extremely dangerous," #Tasers https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-anselmo-man-tased-by-police-during-seizure-alleges-cover-up