California bans face masks for ICE agents(sfstandard.com)

22 points by geox 1 year ago | 3 comments

Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley can't be neutral any longer(sfstandard.com)

23 points by afavour 8 months ago | 2 comments

Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley(sfstandard.com)

275 points by newusertoday 9 months ago | 423 comments

SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims(sfstandard.com)

218 points by drewda 5 months ago | 113 comments

Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby(sfstandard.com)

15 points by user72343432754 1 year ago | 1 comments

Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station(sfstandard.com)

51 points by panic 1 year ago | 31 comments

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop(theintercept.com)

464 points by tdeck 23 hours ago | 126 comments

Intercept opinion piece on Eugene, Oregon police quoting a local news outlet a $2.5M fee for public records about an officer accused of misconduct.

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do(thewhyaxis.substack.com)

332 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 135 comments

Substack post by Christopher Ingraham arguing that US police civil asset forfeiture seizures exceed the value of property stolen by burglars.

Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program(404media.co)

64 points by ripe 25 days ago | 15 comments

404 Media article on how cities are required to share automated license plate reader data with the federal HIDTA surveillance program.

Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used(texasobserver.org)

330 points by nobody9999 9 months ago | 93 comments

Texas Observer investigation into Texas police agencies spending millions on phone-tracking software and refusing to disclose how they use it.