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Reimagining Public Safety: Can Surveillance Be a Fair & Effective Tool?
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Reimagining Public Safety: Can Surveillance Be a Fair & Effective Tool?
Thursday, January 28, 2021 on Zoom
7-8:30pm
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The League of Women Voters of Piedmont is co-sponsoring this virtual panel brought to you by Piedmont Racial Equity Campaign (PREC) and Piedmont Anti-Racism & Diversity Committee (PADC).
Join us for a zoom panel on how surveillance impacts racial justice and public safety in Piedmont and our broader community. New surveillance technologies to monitor, track, and predict the actions of citizens are on the rise. Can they usher in a new era of unbiased, inexpensive public safety and justice? Or are they inherently problematic? Can they be used fairly and effectively, within the context of our flawed public safety and justice system?
We invite your participation!
Before becoming Piedmont’s Chief of Police in 2016, Chief Bowers was with the San Jose Police Department for 15 years. He served as Lieutenant of the Training Division and the Bureau of Field of Operations.
Mathew works on surveillance and privacy issues at the local, state, and federal levels. He is the Editor of "Disciplining the City," a series on the history of urban policing and incarceration for The Metropole.
Brian is the Chair of the City of Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission and Chair of the Doman Awareness Center Ad Hoc Privacy Committee that curtailed the expansion of a city-wide surveillance systems, Domain Awareness Center, in Oakland.
Technology & Civil Liberties Fellow
ACLU of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Jennifer defends and promotes civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age, with a focus on the intersection of government surveillance, immigrants’ rights, and racial justice.