Electeds, Advocates Rally Against NYPD Surveillance Violations Before City Council Hearing

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MEDIA ADVISORY Electeds, Advocates Rally Against NYPD Surveillance Violations Before City Council Hearing (NEW YORK, NY, 12/12/2023) – On Friday, December 15th at 12 PM EST the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), The Legal Aid Society, Brennan Center for Justice, New York City Council Member Amanda Farías, New York Civil Liberties Union, The Policing & Social Justice Project, New York City Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez, Brooklyn Defender Services, Warriors in the Garden, NYU Law Rights over Tech, The Policing Project, and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law will hold a press conference and rally condemning the NYPD’s repeated violations of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, which requires the NYPD to disclose its surveillance technologies. The event will be held ahead of a hearing by the City Council’s Committees on Technology and Public Safety, where advocates will highlight the department’s systematic violation of the law. The hearing has been postponed three times already on account of the NYPD. The same day at 10:30 AM EST, prior to the rally, S.T.O.P. will be staging a public action in Times Square to call attention to the need for NYPD POST Act compliance. WHAT: Electeds, Advocates Rally Against NYPD Surveillance Violations Before City Council Hearing WHO: S.T.O.P. Communications Director, Will Owen; Legal Aid Society Digital Forensics Supervising Attorney, Jerome Greco; New York City Council Member Amanda Farías; Brennan Center for Justice Liberty & National Security Counsel, Ivey Dyson; New York Civil Liberties Union Assistant Policy Director, Michael Sisitzky; Brooklyn Defender Services Science & Surveillance Project Director, Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez; Warriors in the Garden Co-Founder, Derrick “Dwreck’ Ingram; New York City Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez (unconfirmed). WHEN: Friday, December 15th, 12:00 PM EST WHERE: New York City Hall Park, Broadway & Chambers St, New York, NY 10007 CONTACT: S.T.O.P. Communications Director William Owen. SEE: NYC Council Committee on Technology – December 15th Hearing https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1137004&GUID=FB045675-8E38-4CB7-82BF-0B7CE8E7E86A&Options=info|&Search= Tech Policy Press - No More Surprise NYPD Robots https://www.techpolicy.press/no-more-surprise-nypd-robots/ City and State - NYPD may be violating police surveillance transparency law https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/04/nypd-may-be-violating-police-surveillance-transparency-law/385173/ Report - NYPD Violations of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act https://www.stopspying.org/above-the-law   ### Copyright © 2021 Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, All rights reserved.