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Over her decades teaching at San Diego State University, Shirley Weber made a habit of asking students early in her fall classes: “How many of you are registered to vote?”
The numbers would vary, but if a student answered “no” they were tasked with getting registered or helping someone else register if they were under-age.
Weber, who helped found the Africana Studies Department at SDSU, did this because she fundamentally believed in order to be a good student in her class you needed to be part of an active and concerned citizenry. She was so adamant about it that some of the older students began jokingly warning other students considering taking her class.
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The San Diego Police Department has authorized its officers to not wear their name tags during protests if a department leader gives them the OK. Instead officers would wear a tag with an ID number on their uniforms.
Some community members say a number instead of a name will undermine transparency and make it difficult to hold officers accountable. The Police Department disagrees.
A police spokesman said the move a policy change was in response to instances in recent months across the country in which officers’ personal information was revealed during protests.
The department pointed to one instance in San Diego. During a small protest outside the department’s downtown headquarters on Sept. 10, a pair of officers, at the request of a protester, shared their names and ID numbers. Minutes later, the protester used a bullhorn to “yell out” the officers’ home addresses and salary information, according to police spokesman Lt. Shawn Takeuchi.