Oakland Moves Ahead on Controversial Surveillance Center
The Oakland, Calif., City Council has voted 6-1 to move ahead with a controversial city surveillance center (the Domain Awareness Center), which would allow police and city officials to continuously monitor video cameras, gunshot detectors and license-plate readers across the city.
Dozens of Oakland residents, concerned that the center would allow the city to spy on people’s everyday lives, attempted to turn the resolution into a referendum on surveillance and persuade council members to stall or scrap the process, San Francisco Gate reports.