A group of roughly 60 people Monday tuned into a virtual meeting with law enforcement officials taking questions about policies and police reform in San Mateo County.
The roundtable of panelists included San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley, District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe, Half Moon Bay City Councilman Joaquin Jimenez, Sheriff Carlos Bolanos and Capt. Saul Lopez of San Mateo County Sheriffâs Office, and representatives from the offices of state Sen. Josh Becker and Assemblymember Marc Berman.
The 90-minute forum was hosted by La Honda Indivisible, a local chapter of the national political and advocacy group. Co-host Lynnette Vega said the group formed the eventâs questions based on a questionnaire and a template from U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, who sought to gauge the response to reforms of law enforcement procedures.
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The San Mateo County Sheriffâs Office is considering purchasing a facial recognition software created by the company Clearview AI after testing it around 2,000 times.
A BuzzFeedNews investigation published late last month found that use of the software, which compares photographs of people to images from public web sources like social media in order to identify them, was widespread. It found thousands of government entities and private businesses in the United States and abroad using the software, and attributed the information to an anonymous source.
Among the users it found was the San Mateo County Sheriffâs Office, which was said to have logged around 2,000 uses of the software between 2018 and 2020. When first asked by BuzzFeed reporters about the departmentâs use of the software, Public Information Officer Rosemerry Blankswade reportedly said, âNo one is able to speak about these matters at this time.â
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