Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for our Documenters workshop at Pillars of the Community! We had a great time with Pillars of the Community training community members to become Documenters. Couldn’t attend? Join our Documenters Dispatch newsletter in our bio and get trained today!

Pull up and get the expungement process started with Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC)

I wish more people understood this. Kids who feel safe don't carry guns. Kids who have guns are carrying guns because they are scared of something and usually it's something pretty real. Incarcerating teenagers actually worsens the underlying problem.

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Pull up and get the expungement process started with Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC)

“We must take a shared approach to public safety by prioritizing the prevention of crime and harm before they occur. Proposition 47 continues to be an important step in that direction.”
- Khalid Alexander

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(1 of 2): The San Diego Police Department disproportionately targets Black people as gang members at a higher rate than White people. Hear firsthand from a resident who faced profiling & discrimination at a young age and the impacts that experience has had in his adulthood. Pillars of the Community

(2 of 2): It’s time to confront these injustices and demand accountability for a fair and equitable San Diego. Read our report, END GANG PROFILING IN SOUTHEAST SAN DIEGO: Data and Stories from Community Members today to learn more >> bit.ly/EndGangProfili… Pillars of the Community

If you've heard me say that gang laws create a separate, vastly worse legal apparatus for people of color, this is what I mean.

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The stories of those impacted by the San Diego Police Department's racist gang profiling cannot be ignored. With Pillars of the Community, our report, END GANG PROFILING IN SOUTHEAST SAN DIEGO, exposes how the San Diego Police Department criminalizes communities of color & wastes public dollars. Read > bit.ly/EndGangProfili…

The PAB's reviewing San Diego Police Department's wiretapping bugs by Callyo (Apr 10 mtg). When asked why they don't get a warrant, PD said recordings are of places 'detectives have a right to be.' Other places require warrants for such intrusive tech tho: bostonglobe.com/2023/10/26/opi…
San Diego City Council

Yesterday, San Diego City Council's Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee approved continued use of Body Worn Cameras by SDPD. They did not discuss the Privacy Advisory Board's recommended modifications to PD's 5-page use policy, except to say that the order of review 1/6

Yesterday, 200 orgs working in anti-hate convened in LA for the first-ever statewide #StoptheHateCA convening. We came away with a sense of solidarity and a recognition of the shared purpose that unites all of us -- to stop hate in its tracks. Highlights @ linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

.Mayor Eric Adams with the robocop, which cannot make the heart with the mayor because it has no arms

Late repost from out Freedim and Justice Committee fundraiser

At least 4300 residents of City of San Diego left Unsheltered in path of Hurricane/Trop Storm Hilary & San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria doing Mission Accomplished pose.

NEW: Cellebrite asks law enforcement customers to keep their use of the phone hacking tech 'hush hush,' according to leaked video.

The company especially doesn't want cops to talk about it in court to protect trade secrets and avoid helping criminals.

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If privacy advocates feel as if they have been used like political props by some at City Hall, they have their reasons. sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editor…

When elected officials create an environment to dehumanize the unsheltered, the outcomes are predictable. 🖕🖕

If privacy advocates feel as if they have been used like political props by some at City Hall, they have their reasons. sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editor…

Reading that 3 out of 4 people arrested by the LAPD between 2019-2022 were Black or Latino is a startling but not surprising statistic. These numbers do not accurately reflect who our community is. These are our friends and our family. This targeting is systemic racism.