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FAIRFIELD — Legislation has cleared the state Senate that would require state agencies to notify users when they are interacting with artificial intelligence, and that the "private sector adhere to

The Washington Post has obtained emails and other documents showing that police in Austin and San Francisco skirted city bans against using facial recognition by asking officers in other cities to run the AI-powered programs for them.

Today on AirTalk, what California’s above-average April snowpack tells us about the year to come. Also on the show, Oakland is set to deploy surveillance cameras to track vehicles and battle crime; what became of Marlon Brando’s private island ‘Eco-Resort’ Tetiaroa; and more.

REGIONAL — Voters will choose next week between two newcomers to the Zone 7 Board of Directors — Seema Badar and Catherine Brown — for a shortened two-year seat that

Cities around the Bay Area are lining up to get automated license plate readers, but the data shows mixed results at best.

A special committee that advises the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Thursday recommended that the sheriff should look for alternatives in convincing incarcerated people to take their medications and obey orders as they discussed the overall use of deploying tear gas in the jails. 

A Berkeley police sergeant is back on patrol again following the completion last month of an independent investigation into allegations of racial bias and...

The city had given itself a year to evaluate the continued use of its many surveillance technologies or face shutting down a host of tools; on Tuesday, City Council will consider extending that end date by three years

Gavin Newsom hinted he wants to pursue kidnapping charges against Ron DeSantis over migrant flights to California. Can the California governor do that?

Records show that hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and contractors abused confidential databases. In other news, the San Diego Police Department has released a trove of information about the surveillance technologies it uses to investigate crimes and monitor large gatherings. Plus, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was at the international border Monday, to discuss efforts to fix the region’s cross border sewage problem.