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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Turns out ALPRs/hot lists lead to random people getting pulled over in "high risk" stops constantly
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fintech companies stole close to $100 million from people. No one gets arrested and put in a cage. It doesn't even get counted as crime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiE7...
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How Millions of Americans Got Tricked Into Using a Bank That Isn't a Bank
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Documents show this happening in 2023 which is the year Seattle passed its New War on Drugs legislation.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Out covering the No Surveillance Protest Parade on this fine Saturday afternoon.
Protest Parade with big banner saying " Keep us safe no cameras" and colorful balloons. Protest Parade with big banner saying " Keep us safe no cameras" Colorful balloons on the stop light of vine st. More balloons on another stoplight
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 05/06/2026
The judge’s ruling illustrates clear issues with the Keep WA Working Act: federal agents can’t be held accountable for state violations of the law — even if they know they're breaking it.
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Proof ICE agents illegally accessed WA DOL data ruled inadmissible in trial of Salvadoran immigrant
And, an ICE agent with a long history of collaborating with Washington cops, who regularly posts anti-immigrant rhetoric on social media, is set to testify in the case.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
THREAD. I received word that some liberal nonprofits and political consultants are trying to work with establishment Democrats on a political "messaging strategy" to expand surveillance, militarized policing, immigration detention, and overall imprisonment with re-branded language.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A few months ago, I wrote the first part in my series about the Democratic establishment and mainstream news has shamefully misled people about what is "popular" and what is not. And, more bureaucracy of punishment is as unpopular as it is terrible policy: equalityalec.substack.com/p/convention...
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Conventional Wisdom and "Popularity"
And a weird debate I just had.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Another case of cops using surveillance to justify detaining, harassing, & assaulting random people
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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Starbucks is a member of Seattle Shield: prismreports.org/2026/05/20/s...
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Amazon, Facebook, ICE have access to Seattle police intelligence-sharing network
Seattle Shield requests suspicious activity reports from companies, which are then circulated with members as part of surveillance apparatus
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 29/04/2026
Under new World Cup terms reviewed by the Chronicle, host cities like Houston receive no cut of ticket sales, concessions, merchandise or parking — key revenue streams that typically help offset the cost of hosting major events.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A community member found another camera installation that isn't on SPD's camera map. This one contains 5 separate cameras and is located at 12th and Pine attached to SPD's East Precinct.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Meeting in the conference room at 10am ET. Pam brought donuts and coffee. First come, first serve. youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ
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It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Also, one of the murders SPD "cleared" in 2025 was SPD arresting, charging, & jailing an innocent man due to CCTV footage stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The CCTV / ShotSpotter / police tech crowd has very little in terms of actual studies proving their efficacy, so they mostly win over politicians with this one simple argument
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/04/2026
Torture is routine in the US, and legal. We do it to prisoners.
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For 23 years, WA has detained a man for a crime he can’t understand
Washington taxpayers spend more than $500,000 a year to hold a man with an intellectual disability on McNeil Island. He’s been sexually abused for decades in state custody.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Katie Wilson wants to surveil you while you go to the bathroom. Seriously, these things are functionally honey buckets (there's no actual plumbing connection) with surveillance to record who uses them, when they use them, how long they use them, etc.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’ve been studying the punishment bureaucracy and suing judges, prosecutors, and police across the U.S. for more than 15 years. One defining feature of our legal system is that there is rarely any accountability for massive corruption and criminality by those with power.
Phoenix police won’t discipline any officers in massive scandal of testing fake gangs and charging protestors falsely as members in 2020.
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It’s kinda wild that the lady who lied and destroyed records was even on an “ethics board” to begin with. But it was at the company that makes the taser, a safe, “non-lethal” weapon that constantly kills people, so it tracks
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Bob Kettle: "I don't see any risks with SPD's mass surveillance. I also didn't see any risks ahead of 9/11 and dismissed or ignored all threat reports."
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
While the Mayor is asking departments to trim the fat, cops are leaving hours early and claiming overtime for full shifts. One officer's defense: Everybody does it. open.substack.com/pub/divestsp...
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Seattle cops caught scamming overtime
With officers on the honor's system and tacit approval from supervisors, leaving early and logging a full overtime shift is seen as an "accepted practice."
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Another case SPD would call "justice" since an arrest was made: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Grandma jailed after AI error linked her to crime in state she never visited: lawyer
The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Who did Mayor Wilson hire to do a report on SPD's mass surveillance? SPD www.policingproject.org/news-main/st...
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
By SPD's definition, arresting, an innocent person, caging them for a month, and charging them with arson & murder is "justice" stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s... Keep that in mind every time SPD, or one of their mouthpieces, brags about how cameras led to an arrest
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Ballard Food Bank's annual report for 2025 is out. Its a reminder that in one of the richest cities in the world: -Food insecurity keeps increasing -Community funds food banks, not government -Seattle spends more on surveillance each year than on food access static1.squarespace.com/static/5d4b3...
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
SPD wants to have drones respond to calls. Shows the police always want more surveillance and the reason SPD's fight to prevent anyone else from responding to calls is just SPD trying to get more money
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Seattle Public Library hired a cop to run security. It's going about how you would expect. New article from DivestSPD editor Justin Ward: www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/23/s...
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Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People » The Urbanist
# Some library staff say that a new enforcement crackdown led by the Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is turning librarians into part-time cops, and they’re not happy about it. Justin…
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
youtu.be/b5HtV4vip5s
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The Big Lie About Body Cameras
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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Civil Rights Corps @civrightscorps.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The good folx at Seattle Solidarity Budget put together a map showing the location of -SPD's cameras -SDOT cameras (which feed into SPD's Real-Time Crime Center) WSDOT cameras -Some private cameras www.seattlesolidaritybudget.com/surveillance...
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Surveillance In Seattle — Seattle Solidarity Budget
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I write all about age verification and how it's being pushed in this WA legislative session. When I wrote my piece about AI bills last month, every privacy advocate I spoke with expressed their concern about the age verification bills in play this session. So I carved out some time to learn more.
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Two cops fired, and a $29 million settlement feels like some measure of justice, but it's still not enough. DivestSPD's statement on the Jaahnavi Kandula settlement.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Google fulfilled an ICE subpoena demanding large swaths of information on a student journalists, including his bank and credit card numbers. My latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
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Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
SPD works with ICE ICE doesn't need to file a subpoena to get access to SPD's data, including its surveillance. ICE can get all the data it wants just by asking SPD for it.
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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
NEW: Seattle Police Operating Secret-No-More CCTV Camera www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-pd-o...
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Seattle PD Operating Secret CCTV Camera
HardPressed
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jseattle @jseattle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
12th and Pine
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Why you should try to get on a jury: electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
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Victory for Palestine Action as "Filton 6" acquitted
Activists admitted in court to destroying Israeli weapons.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The story also contains a great reminder of why to never use biometrics to unlock a device.
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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Washington State Fusion Center Shares Intelligence Products With ICE & CBP www.hardpressed-info.com/washington-s...
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Washington State Fusion Center Shares Intelligence Products With ICE & CBP
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good last month, a voice on the agent's own video recording called Good a "fucking bitch." Weeks later, two Customs and B...
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This. So much this. Don’t serve them. Don’t date them. Don’t treat them like human beings. Make them pariahs. Break their morale. Make them do the “sad Charlie Brown” walk out of every store they go into.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In the coming days you might well hear arguments that surveillance is the answer to the tragedy of gun violence, and therefore Seattle shouldn't turn off SPD's cameras. I urge you to interrogate this framing.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Appears these somehow didn't go through the surveillance determination process. At least some versions of these air quality sensors include microphones: www.wired.com/story/school... www.seattle.gov/tech/data-pr...
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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We only know about a lot of the ways mass surveillance has been used because of public records requests by reporters & community groups. Cops & surveillance companies are obscuring info on use. And, WA state legislature is working on a bill SB 6002 to exempt surveillance data from public records
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Great reporting once again highlighting why Seattle needs to withdraw from the Join Terrorism Task Force. JTTF policy is set by the FBI. JTTF lets Kash Patel tell SPD what to do.
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Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
And, the Washington Department of Licensing is sharing driver data with ICE. If Ferguson wants to protect people from ICE, there are lots of concrete actions he can take instead of making vague, empty claims at press conferences jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/...
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Roadside Assist: Washington State’s Continued Sharing of Drivers’ Information with Federal Immigration Enforcement - Center for Human Rights
Executive summary Today, immigrant Washingtonians are increasingly afraid to drive, as our streets, highways, and public thoroughfares have become frequent sites for immigration enforcement. These incidents, in which drivers are typically apprehended by masked, unidentified agents driving unmarked vehicles, raise multiple human rights concerns: many arrests appear to have been warrantless,[1] some have been violent,[2]
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"But if training hasn’t worked, why does it continue? Why is it always trotted out, alongside new technologies, as the solution? Because training and technologies (body cams, Tasers, so-called less-than-lethal weapons, predictive policing software) are a boondoggle for corporate interests."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
ELITE gets data from lots of sources, and one of them appears to be Thomson Reuters' CLEAR data product. ICE has long contracted with the company, which sells addresses and other personal data. Those addresses can come from credit header data (when you open a card) www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
Those sources can include HHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and “CLEAR.” The guide does not provide any more specifics on what CLEAR might be, but ICE has repeatedly contracted with Thomson Reuters which sells a data product called CLEAR. Thomson Reuters did not respond to a request for comment. HHS did not respond to a request for comment.
The documents don’t say if those are the only entities providing data for ELITE. The user guide says ELITE is “integrating new data sources” to reduce officer workload.
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