It’s Time to Oppose the New San Francisco Policing Ballot Measure

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has filed a ballot initiative on surveillance and policing that, if approved, would greatly erode our privacy rights, endanger marginalized communities, and roll back the incredible progress the city has made in creating democratic oversight of police’s use of surveillance technologies. The measure will be up for a vote during the March 5, 2024 election.

Specifically, the ballot measure would erode San Francisco’s landmark 2019 surveillance ordinance which requires city agencies, including the police department, …