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Ordinance to Prevent SF Involvement in FBI Abuse Moves Forward
COMMUNITY UPDATE Monday, March 5, 2012 Contact: Summer Hararah Asian Law Caucus, 415.848.7714 Lily Haskell AROC, 415.861.7444 Ordinance to Prevent SF Involvement in FBI Abuse Moves Forward with Six Members of Board of Supervisors Co-Sponsoring Ordinance Heads to Full Board with Strong Recommendation of Public Safety Committee and Growing Endorsement List (SAN [...]
Call for Stories – We Want to Hear From You!
CALL FOR STORIES Have you been Approached or Questioned by Agents or Police working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU ! All your information will be treated confidentially. The Coalition for Safe San Francisco is documenting and collecting personal stories of San Francisco and Bay Area community members who [...]
In SF: Community & Civil Rights Groups Oppose Secret Agreement with FBI
Safe in San Francisco For the past 20 years, protections for First Amendment activity have been robust in San Francisco. One good reason is that local officials, advocacy organizations and community members have heeded lessons from intelligence-gathering scandals of days past, and enacted public policies to prevent history from repeating itself. Take Department General Order 8.10, first [...]
Media Advisory: SF Supes. to Consider Restoring Local Control Over Intelligence-Gathering
MEDIA ADVISORY: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Contact: Laura Saponara, ACLU of Northern California, 415-621-2493 SF Supes. to Consider Restoring Local Control Over Intelligence-Gathering Supervisor Kim to introduce legislation that would return longstanding local control and civilian oversight omitted in secret agreement between SFPD and FBI San Francisco – At a noon [...]
Community Endorsements of the Safe SF Ordinance
The following organizations have endorsed the proposed Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance (San Francisco Board of Supervisors File # 120046) – updated March 16, 2012 Attorney Associations Afghan American Bar Association Asian American Bar Association of the Bay Area (AABA) Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers (BAAML) Bay [...]
What is the Safe SF Civil Rights Ordinance? Preventing Local Involvement in FBI Intelligence Abuses
The Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance: Preventing Local Involvement in FBI Intelligence Abuses Understanding Local and State Protections California and San Francisco have a strong history of safeguarding our fundamental civil rights and liberties — • California’s state constitution guarantees an inalienable right to privacy and bans intrusive surveillance and intelligence [...]
ACTION ALERT: 10/5 Community Mobilization- End SF Police Involvement in FBI Profiling Practices
TO ENDORSE THE MOBILIZATION AS AN ORGANIZATION, CLICK HERE: http://tinyurl.com/3tzo3ag TO RSVP AS AN INDIVIDUAL, CLICK HERE: http://tinyurl.com/3by5rz6
PACK CITY HALL! May 18, 2011, 5:30PM- SF Police Hearing on Racial Profiling
Have you been discriminated against? Subject to invasive and lengthy airport checks? Approached by the FBI? Racially profiled? Questions by the police? In September 2010 the SF Human Rights Commission held a public hearing on: Community Concerns of Racial and Religious Profiling and Surveillance of Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian Communities and Possible [...]
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