cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30061087

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250522120541/https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000

I've experienced similar issues on a local level, sometimes not even getting a response to requests at all. I've encountered law enforcement in online forums who seemed to have complete contempt for the public, bragging that they would deny any records request that came across their desk regardless of the validity or legality of it, and with complete confidence that they would not be penalized for their antisocial antics.

The DOJ COPS portal also has plenty of other law enforcement guidance material to peruse.

*Banned in Russia and Venezuela.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21058613

I recently discovered a company called Flock which apparently is building a massive surveillance network. I came across a reddit post on r/sysadmin where an admin received a request to install a black box device so that law enforcement could access cameras.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers (disclaimer: I don't support the political views of ACLU)

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1eu0fje/local_police_want_permanent_access_to_our_cameras/

This adds some context to the last article posted. I was intrigued by the point made at the end of the article that when the 4th amendment and wiretap laws threatened to get in the way of illegal domestic surveillance, the FBI outsourced those surveillance activities to other countries not bound by those civil rights laws to "launder" the evidence.

No usable results on 12ft.io or archive, and pasting the text here would leave out many screenshots which are important for context.