Notices by Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)

CA passed an Immigration Detainee bill of rights emphasizing the right to healthy food and clean living facilities. This caused the Geo Group to sue the state. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-07/private-prison-company-sues-california-over-civil-rights-law-for-immigrant-detainees

"Federal protections have been key to saving nearly 300 U.S. species — including the bald eagle, American alligator, and grizzly bear — from permanent extinction" https://grist.org/regulation/trump-gutting-endangered-species-act-these-10-species-show-whats-at-stake/

"The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane" https://www.npr.org/2026/10/08/nx-s1-5983441/ice-warehouses-new-jersey-roxbury

"1500 nurses marched to ICE’s San Francisco field office on Wednesday. They want public institutions, including hospitals, to cut ties with Palantir, which they say is aiding and abetting ICE’s threat to democracy" https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2026-10-01/nurses-rally-in-san-francisco-against-palantirs-work-with-ice

Federal DOJ sends a subpoena to San Diego County for voter information. https://inewsource.org/2026/10/08/san-diego-politicians-react-to-doj-voter-record-subpoenas/

Cal-OSHA planning to make CA the first state to ban quartz countertop manufacturing due to silicosis illness in workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/us/politics/quartz-counters-california.html?

City of Eugene, Oregon requests $2.5 million dollars to produce records about a police officer who punched a resident in the fact during a traffic stop. #PublicRecords https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/

SF Data Center moratorium up at SF Board of Supes Land Use Committee 1:30pm Monday October 5th City Hall Room 250

Hey San Jose. Why are we pretending we can't prosecute the SJ cop who misused ALPR? Penal Code 118.1 making false statements about the purpose of a search in a police report (log) . Guilty. https://www.police1.com/arrests-sentencing/ex-texas-officer-sentenced-to-5-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-100-counts-related-to-alpr-misuse

"The world’s largest fast-food chain has increasingly been pushing franchisees to use an AI-powered algorithm that analyzes data across McDonald’s 14,000 restaurants to estimate “customer willingness to pay in your area,” https://nypost.com/2026/09/29/business/mcdonalds-pushes-ai-tools-that-suggest-big-mac-prices-based-on-customer-willingness-to-pay/

MIT, where so much important research has been done on racial disparities in facial recognition, plans to blanket their campus with AI-enabled pan, tilt and zoom cameras with deep learning detection algorithms. https://thetech.com/2026/04/16/ai-surveillance-cameras

" J.C. labeled two people he filmed at a Home Depot parking lot with “Threat to Law Enforcement, Professional Protestor, and sent photos of them and others to a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer so he could run a facial recognition search on them using an app called Mobile Query" https://www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-dumping-protester-photos-into-a-palantir-database/

CalTech mathematicians force OpenAI and Anthropic to drop their sponsorship of a student hackathon event. https://edsource.org/2026/caltech-students-mathathon-anthropic-openai-backlash/767141

#Amazon planning to outfit delivery drivers with #smartglasses so they can send delivery instructions directly to their head instead of an intermediary device. https://cybernews.com/news/amazon-surveillance-smart-delivery-glasses/

"Delivery drones that weigh the same amount as bowling balls hovering over San Francisco streets and neighborhoods at 50 to 100 feet high to deliver Chipotle are not welcome.” https://sfist.com/2026/09/30/doordash-plans-northern-california-drone-deliveries-using-drones-built-in-the-mission/

It's pretty obvious that using spytech to gather info that is used to give us individualized prices is not going to work to our advantage. Politicians need to catch up with common sense. #surveillancepricing https://nationalfairhousing.org/national-fair-housing-alliance-and-the-leadership-conference-lead-coalition-of-27-organizations-calling-for-a-ban-on-surveillance-pricing/

One of the longest law enforcement consent decrees in American history has ended in Oakland. https://oaklandside.org/2026/09/29/oakland-police-federal-oversight-ends/

"Ellison threatened the entire state of CA with moving #Paramount, he said they’d destroy antitrust law by appealing to a SCOTUS whose members they know personally, and his allies controlled most of the media narrative https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-with-paramount?

"In all, nearly 18,000 regulatory actions were taken by county #pesticide safety inspectors across California from the start of 2020 through June 2025. Fewer than 30% resulted in fines. When regulators did levy penalties, they were often as low as $50 to $250" https://capitalandmain.com/haphazard-pesticide-enforcement-puts-farmworkers-in-california-at-risk

Hacker group breached FBI's medical and psychiatric employee records. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-shinyhunters-hackers-stole-psychiatric-203225945.html