Take Them Down

The petition asks the council to show us what it is doing. This page says what we think should happen to the cameras.

The petition asks the council to show us what it is already doing. This page is about what should happen next.

A network that records everyone should not exist by default. Recording every car on a public street is not a security measure. It is a movement record.

  • Delete the data. Years of residents' location history should not sit waiting for a reason.
  • Let residents vote. A binding referendum on whether the network continues is the bare minimum.
  • Set an end date. If the city cannot justify the network in public, the cameras come down on a schedule the council commits to in writing.

No published policy, no named operators, no audited searches, no limit on who can look, and no vote by the people being recorded. A program that cannot be explained to the public should not be run on the public.

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