Thousands of Californians don't have clean drinking #water. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-09-27/californias-struggle-for-clean-water-is-getting-harder

Request filed for the DOJ to look into ARPA dispensations for #Shotspotter gun detection microphones as a Title IX violation since the equipment is overwhelmingly deployed in minority communities. #discrimination https://www.wired.com/story/shotspotter-doj-letter-epic/

Nobel prize-winning #economist says his profession sucks. ""They are apostles for the globalization and technical change that have enriched an elite and have redistributed income and wealth from labor to capital, all the while destroying millions of jobs, hollowing out communities, and worsening the lives of their occupants," https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/09/26/1199422599/a-nobel-prize-winning-immigrants-view-on-american-inequality

The names keep changing to keep you confused, but the largest manufacturer of gunshot detection microphones (TCFKA Shotspotter) just bought the once dominant company in predictive policing (TCFKA Predpol). New multi-faceted #surveillance coming to a police department near you. https://www.wired.com/story/soundthinking-geolitica-acquisition-predictive-policing/

The definition of impunity. The Mississippi AG, a congressman, multiple judges all knew a #sheriff had subpoenaed phone records to #spy on his girlfriend. None of them did anything. NOT coincidentally Sheriff Bailey and his department have been under national scrutiny and a federal #civilrights investigation since five deputies and a local police officer pleaded guilty this year to torturing two Black men and shooting one of them in the mouth. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/rankin-county-mississippi-sheriff-abuse.html?

Your digital rights matter! Join us to uncover Big Tech's dangerous "digital trade" sneak attack against online #privacy, #AI accountability and gig #worker protections. Help our coalition demand accountability from our governments by signing the petition. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/october-days-of-action-stop-big-techs-digital-trade-sneak-attack-on-personal-privacy-ai-accountability-worker-rights?source=direct_link&referrer=group-media-alliance

"People find #news about people like them more relevant than news about people who aren’t. TIt’s not just the ethical choice to represent a wider swath of your audience — it’s also the strategic choice". #journalism https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/09/what-is-news-anyway-readers-answers-depend-on-how-much-they-see-people-like-themselves-in-the-story/

Small East Bay town of 30,000 plans to build $43 million dollar #police headquarters at a price that is 65% of one year's annual budget in its entirety. #sanPablo $1,433 per inhabitant. https://localnewsmatters.org/2023/09/23/san-pablos-new-43m-police-training-center-eyed-as-its-largest-public-works-project-ever/

They found 100 pounds of #fentanyl. In the car of a Riverside County #Sheriff's Deputy. https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2023/09/25/charges-filed-in-fentanyl-case-against-riverside-county-sheriffs-deputy/70964542007/

New Pew study says a majority of Black Americans think #media coverage of Black people remains negative and unfair and suggest #journalists need a better understanding of history and more direct interactions with Black communities. https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/09/26/black-americans-experiences-with-news/

"The court also said #Oakland must identify the officers who testified about misconduct by their colleagues. A state law allowing #witnesses’ names to be withheld from public records applies only to civilians and not to police, Richman said" #publicrecords https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/oakland-police-records-18388087.php

"What happened to the questioning? What happened to me speaking to someone?” she said. “What happened to any of the initial steps that I thought were available to a person who was accused of doing something?” #facialrecognition https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/facial-recognition-technology-police-arrests-b2413116.html

"When asked to cite examples of arrests that were made because of the #robot over the two years since it was deployed, Lozano said there haven’t been many. “I want to say that it’s been useful in robot tipping and vandalism against the robot itself,” he said, noting that this has only occurred twice in two years". https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/security-robots-expand-across-u-s-few-tangible-results-n1272421

9 #privacy groups, including Oakland Privacy join PIRG in asking for #Mastercard to stop sharing customer data with third parties. https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/mastercard-coalition-letter/

A breathtaking acceptance of the "right" to child abuse from Red California. "Yes, there’ll be a couple of parents that are going to explode,” Diffley said at the August meeting. “There are parents that will explode for lots of different things: ‘You didn’t make the baseball team? Whack.’’ #childabuse https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-21/transgender-students-parental-notification-policies-schools-lgbtq-forced-outing

We would do well to understand that a righting wrongs and providing justice makes for a healthier society which benefits everyone. "Taylor said #reparations would benefit San Francisco as a whole: “There’s no Black-only policy in America that only benefited Black people.” https://www.sfpublicpress.org/with-reparations-office-in-limbo-advocates-urge-action-to-help-black-residents/

"“In other words, #Amazon doesn’t have to build warehousing and shipping costs into the price of its own products, because it’s found a way to get smaller online sellers to pay those costs,” https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-21-amazons-185-billion-pay-to-play-system/

There's a sucker born every minute. "69,795 out of 73,257 #NFT collections have a market cap of 0 Ether, leaving 95% of those holding NFT collections – or 23 million people – with worthless investments". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/22/nfts-worthless-price

Google sued after #Google Maps directed a driver over a collapsed bridge 3 years after Google had been notified that the bridge was collapsed. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/lawsuit-says-man-died-after-google-maps-directed-him-over-collapsed-bridge/

Behavioral health officers try to shape #CARECourt into something that helps, not hurts, people struggling with mental health issues. "If someone agrees to do something of their own accord, it is far more probable that there will be long-term success” https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/care-courts-mental-health-california-orange-county-launch/