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Dave Maass

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Street Level Surveillance: Biometrics FOIA Campaign

Police departments are increasingly tracking your face, your fingerprints, your tattoos — and even your DNA. Help the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock uncover how local agencies are tracking you and bring some much-needed transparency to the murky world of biometric surveillance.

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Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency

Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency

by Derek Kravitz, Beryl Lipton, Dave Maass, Michael Morisy, Aaron Mackey, Matthew Guariglia, Betsy Ladyzhets, Dillon Bergin, Mukund Rathi
March 14, 2022

Each year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records requests from journalists and transparency advocates across the United States and beyond. Here are this year’s “winners.”

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Data Driven: Explore how cops are collecting and sharing our travel patterns using automated license plate readers

Data Driven: Explore how cops are collecting and sharing our travel patterns using automated license plate readers

by Dave Maass, Beryl Lipton
November 15, 2018

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock have filed hundreds of public records requests with law enforcement agencies around the country to reveal how data collected from automated license plate readers is used to track the travel patterns of drivers. Today we are releasing records obtained from 200 agencies, accounting for more than 2.5 -billion license plate scans in 2016 and 2017.

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What We Learned

What We Learned

by Dave Maass, Beryl Lipton
November 15, 2018

Our research shows that 173 agencies from 23 states and the federal government accounted for roughly 2.5 -billion license plate scans in 2016 and 2017. The remaining 27 agencies refused to turn over reports on how much data they collected.

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Understanding the Source Documents

Understanding the Source Documents

by Dave Maass, Beryl Lipton
November 15, 2018

Part of our strategy with this public records campaign was to seek two separate, uniform classes of documents easily exportable through Vigilant Solutions’ LEARN system. We provided each agency with a guide to producing these records straight from the user manual, which had been obtained through open records law by Mike Katz-Lacabe of the Center for Human Rights and Privacy. Most agencies were able to follow these instructions and provide the standardized records. Some did not and require a little work to decipher.

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Introduction

Introduction

by Dave Maass, Beryl Lipton
November 15, 2018

Fewer symbols in America represent a sense of freedom more than an automobile on the open roadway. But in recent years, law enforcement and private companies have developed new technologies to automatically document our comings and goings and where we go in between. Today, police can access vast databases to search our travel patterns with just a few keyboard strokes.

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Latest Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
Mayor Keeks Awaiting Response City Of Reno Reno, NV
Automated License Plate Readers No Responsive Documents Boulder City Police Department Boulder City, NV
ASK EMMA Rejected U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services United States of America
Flock Safety Training Completed Redlands Police Department Redlands, CA
Cell-site simulator agreement and procurement information (Tucson Police Department) No Responsive Documents Tucson Police Department Tucson, AZ

Recently Completed Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
California 12525 Data Completed California Department of Justice California
San Francisco enCampment database Completed Department of Public Works San Francisco, CA
FCC Complaints: Abbott Elementary Completed Federal Communications Commission United States of America
ALPR DETECTIONS/HITS/SHARING (City Of Allen Police Department) Completed City Of Allen Police Department Allen, TX
Cell-site simulator agreement and procurement information (Tempe Police Department) Completed Tempe Police Department Tempe, AZ

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