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1 month ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
A report released in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties organization, found that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department improperly accessed databases with sensitive personal information thousands of times in 2023.
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2 months ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
Outside a low-income apartment complex in Northwest Pasadena, children play a pick-up game of basketball on the black and orange court. Two blocks north, a small soccer game takes place on the grassy field at Robinson Park. As the children laugh and shout, microphones installed on utility poles down the street listen for gunfire.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
The Los Angeles City Council has authorized the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to continue using tactical and so-called “military” equipment. On Tuesday, the city council approved 10-2 the LAPD’s report enumerating its use and inventory of such equipment, as required by California state law. Council members Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martinez voted no.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
This fall election presents LA County residents with a choice to make about LA’s criminal justice system. Two candidates – the incumbent George Gascón, and his challenger Nathan Hochman – are jockeying to serve the next four years as Los Angeles County’s District Attorney. LA’s DA office oversees one of the single largest jurisdictions of any local elected office in the country.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
The University of California Regents approved the purchase of military equipment at September’s UC Regents meeting at UCLA. The unanimous vote took place behind closed doors while the UCLA Police Department (UCPD), dressed in riot gear, forced those who came to give public comment outside of the building. The approved purchases include 3,000 rounds of pepper munitions, 500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions, 12 drones, & 9 less-lethal launchers across six University of California campuses.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is failing to comply with a three-year-old state law that requires California police agencies to make public their inventory of military and other advanced technical equipment. The law, AB481, also requires police agencies to make public their use policies for that equipment, as well as the steps for accountability should the equipment be misused.
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May 8, 2024 | 
lapublicpress.org | Jack Ross |Joey Scott |Martin Macias
The masked men could be seen through the cracks in the wall — their hands snatched through the boards, grabbing at protesters’ faces — all while Israeli children’s music blared across Dickson Plaza. It was April 30, 2024. The mob beat protesters with sticks, sprayed them with bear mace, and tore down the boards forming the eastern barricade of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA. Twenty-four hours later, the boards were being ripped down again — this time by law enforcement.
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May 8, 2024 | 
archive.is | Jack Ross |Joey Scott |Martin Macias |Michelle Peng
The masked men could be seen through the cracks in the wall — their hands snatched through the boards, grabbing at protesters’ faces — all while Israeli children’s music blared across Dickson Plaza. It was April 30, 2024. The mob beat protesters with sticks, sprayed them with bear mace, and tore down the boards forming the eastern barricade of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA. Twenty-four hours later, the boards were being ripped down again — this time by law enforcement.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott
After requests from LA Public Press asking why the Los Angeles Police Department arrested drone pilots flying in downtown LA, the department says they will no longer enforce the city’s drone law. Since February, the LAPD has arrested, cited, and confiscated the drones of nine drone pilots flying near the abandoned graffitied towers in downtown Los Angeles. The arrests flew under the radar until LAPD’s Assistant Commander Lillian Carranza, proudly shared the news on social media.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
knock-la.com | Joey Scott
LAPD has bolstered its online surveillance operations by adding another piece of technology to its roster. LAPD’s newest surveillance partner, Cobwebs Technologies, gathers data from your phone and social media activity and turns it into intelligence. The Israeli company’s surveillance software, which outsources much of their surveillance work to AI and machine learning, gives police warrantless access to your personal information.
