One person, no vote. Why did you write this book . Guest the book emerged out of two things, one was a 2016 election, and there is when i about,he pundits talking black people did not show up. Blacky lost because people were not feeling hillary. I looked at that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Rights act. It began to deal with the massive disenfranchisement happening particularly in the south. Where you had counties that had a majority black population, but zero africanamericans were registered to vote. What the Voting Rights and did was have a provision called preclarence, meaning certain jurisdictions that had a documented history of discrimination against its citizens had to hav
Fingerprints have been used as a tool for many decades. Other biometrics included dna, voice pattern, and palm prints. Facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it is used by the government and the private sector. This collection is storing different kinds of biometric information. Can usetsa cant those, for example. To biometricsed technology and i recognize it can be valuable to Homeland Security. However, its proliferation across dhs raises serious questions about privacy, Data Security, transparency, and accuracy. The American People deserve answers to those questions. The Committee Held roundtable discussions with both industry and Civil Liberties. The increasing use of Biometric Technology. Sufficients have concerns that the data dhs is whether thend department is safeguarding our rights appropriately. We have good reasons to be concerned. Americans may not know when the department is collecting biome
Called it exactly, supervisor. I think thats what im known for, is my shyness. [laughter] were just having conversations just this morning, just because everyone was here. I have worked with the justice and the Mayors Office previously and with the d. A. s office in the past. But we have not been incorporated into the new reiteration of the justice yet. But we just started having those preliminary conversations this morning, when i was just talking to linda in the audience. I will say that before we were even able to have this conversation, as many of you may be aware, d. P. A. , when i came over in 2017, was still on the norvel system, which predated lotus notes. [laughter] and we were the only department in the system that was still operating on norvel. We didnt have computers. We didnt have the technology. So now we are all uptodate with our windows systems. Were all uptodate with the computers. We just got our new c. M. S. System a few months ago, coordinating through bridge and no
All month away though, so well talk about that that uh yes this morning. I dont know that anybodys birthday just cold al qaeda foggy you may be shivering as youre walking outside thats about the only dance are going to do it looking out there at berkeley conditions, nice and clear but not necessarily clear across the entirety of the bay area over San Francisco. You have some low cloud cover and then for inland valleys that fog is especially forms pretty dense so watch out for some problem spots between conquered down into the tri valley as well as down into the south bay, coastal areas have been holding up a lot better than other areas of the bay have with a clear skies for the most part right across the bay itself now this afternoon expect plenty of sunshine. Some nice and dry conditions for your couple of days before christmas now. We are going to work our way back into some showers on Christmas Day though, so today, some sunshine later on that you should enjoy the 30s and 40s for yo
System a few months ago, coordinating through bridge and now were relaunching the website. I think part of the reason that we had not been at the table and participating in the past, was because we werent able to accommodate whatever information could have come out or could have been shared with justice. And were just now bringing ourselves up to that space. So this is a really exciting time for us technologywise, specifically as we are launching our broader transparency and more of the reports, which were going to talk about later on today. And well be able to share much more of that information, especially as it dovetails into some of the audit functions, that are expanding with the department of Police Accountability. So the short answer is not yet. But were looking forward to sharing that information, analyzing that information and redistributing it amongst all of the justice participants. Supervisor walton i hope we see the equity issues that exist with the department of Police Ac