Notices by Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)

"“It seems like no one, [Riverside] Sheriff [Chad] Bianco included, knows why those location data searches were done in Riverside’s [license plate] database" #ALPR https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/

NY Legislature passes law to ensure journalist access to police scanners. Gov. Hochul has not yet signed the bill. #police #encryption https://apnews.com/article/ny-police-encrypt-radio-233dae52aa5da91f53fa4258f40756d0

Sonoma County sued for #drone flights over county residents homes searching for code violations. https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/sonoma-county-drone-aclu-lawsuit-20363620.php

"The Feb. 1 blaze at the Martinez Refining Company sent a large plume of black smoke over Martinez and released more than 7,000 gallons of hydrocarbon materials. Some of the chemicals released in the fire can cause cancer, heart and lung disease" https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/06/05/martinez-refinery-fire-lack-of-contractor-personnel-insufficient-training-supervision/?

"The children, the youngest of whom is three years old, were provided a bag of chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini carton of milk as their sole rations for a day" #ICE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/la-ice-raids-immigration-conditions

"Her picture had somehow been circulated to local stores alerting them that they should not allow her entry. Ms Horan said she checked her bank account to confirm she had indeed paid for the items before #Facewatch eventually responded to say a review of the incident showed she had not stolen anything." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr510p7kymo

"The new documents obtained by 404 Media also show ARC asking CBP to “not publicly identify vendor, or its employees, individually or collectively, as the source of the reports". #airlines #HomelandSecurity https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/

"The Sacramento Homeless Union harshly opposes the plan to use drones. Crystal Sanchez, the union's president, said: "The use of #drones by the county probation department is just the latest escalation in a disturbing trend - treating people in crisis as if they are criminals to be surveilled, rather than neighbors in need of support and dignity". https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/sacramento-county-to-use-drones-to-track-homeless-people-on-probation/ar-AA1G6T9d

1.9 million people, or about 15% of its customer base, have requested their genetic data be deleted from the company’s servers since it filed for bankruptcy protection in March" #23andme https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/23andme-says-15-of-customers-asked-to-delete-their-genetic-data-since-bankruptcy/

"Rose noted that on Friday, freelance #journalist Sean Becker-Carmichael was struck in the head by a tear-gas round and that “had it been two inches lower, he would have lost an eye" https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/ruben-salazars-death-journalists-protests

"He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work". #Fulbright https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-board-resign-trump.html

Evil clown show. ""The aliens are currently being held in a conference room in a converted Conex shipping container on the U.S. Naval base in Camp Lemonnier". https://theintercept.com/2025/06/05/ice-immigrants-djibouti-illness-smoke-security/

"The levels of #PFAS found in #fish in San Francisco Bay make them unsafe to eat daily and, in hot spots on the southern end of the bay, even weekly". https://www.sfpublicpress.org/forever-chemicals-threaten-bay-fishers/

45-day clock on the recission of all funding for public television and radio runs out on July 18, potentially ending an era that began in 1967. #NPR #PBS https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/media/trump-rescission-cpb-pbs-npr-public-broadcasters

Lotsa money to try to build an #AI that won't lie to humans to avoid being turned off. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/honest-ai-yoshua-bengio

Apparently #Waymos are now aping human #driver behavior so the whole thing about how they are safer drivers than us looks likely to go up in a puff of smoke. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-robotaxis-driving-like-humans-20354066.php

#Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, who owns Ripple, is buying the San Francisco #police department and helping to gut public oversight of police tech. We are making it explicit that the police work for the rich. #surveillance https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sfpd-ripple-chris-larsen-donate-9m-surveillance/

"Key architects of Trump’s onslaught on the #FirstAmendment have made it clear that their goal is conflating all speech defending Palestine with terrorism. There is no reason to believe this ends with noncitizens". https://jacobin.com/2025/06/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech-rubio?

☀️ LIHEAP is already underfunded, and now with summer approaching, the Trump administration has unlawfully terminated all U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency LIHEAP staff and aim to potentially defund the program entirely.

✅GOOD NEWS:
@WEACT4J led 65 organizations to urge full funding and restored staff for the essential, bi-partisan, and popular cooling and heating #energy relief program LIHEAP >> https://bit.ly/3FuwtfI

California's experiment with paying #jurors $100/day instead of $15/day looks to end after only 8 months. https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/jury-duty-pay-california-budget/