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âPredictive policingâ continues in Pascoâs school; itâs been amended, not ended | Column
Instead of ending the surveillance agreement, the Pasco County School Board worked with the sheriff to amend it behind closed doors.
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Caitlin Al-Mutawa, of Tampa, a speech-language pathologist with Veteran s Elementary School in Wesley Chapel, speaks out against student information and data sharing between the Pasco County Schools and the Pasco County Sheriff s Office during a Pasco School Board meeting in December 2020. Listening, at right, is Pasco County school superintendent Kurt Browning. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]
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When is a victory lap a mistake? When you take it before youâve actually won. Thatâs exactly what happened when the Pasco County School Board and the Sheriffâs Office announced this month that they ended their highly controversial surveillance agreement. But instead of ending the program that polices Pa
All too often, police and other government agencies unleash invasive surveillance technologies on the streets of our communities, based on the unilateral and secret decisions of agency executives, after hearing from no one except corporate sales agents. This spy tech causes false arrests, disparately burdens BIPOC and immigrants, invades our privacy, and deters our free speech.
Many communities have found Community Control of Police Surveillance (CCOPS) laws to be an effective step on the path to systemic change. CCOPS laws empower the people of a community, through their legislators, to decide whether or not city agencies may acquire or use surveillance technology. Communities can say “no,” full stop. That will often be the best answer, given the threats posed by many of these technologies, such as face surveillance or predictive policing. If the community chooses to say “yes,” CCOPS laws require the adoption of use policies that secure civil rights and civil liberties, and