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August 4, 2022: TRUST Surveillance Technology Oversight Ordinance achieves unanimous consent for final passage.
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Bloomberg CityLab

San Diego lawmakers are pushing back against streetlight surveillance.
CAIR San Diego

CAIR San Diego

Over the last three years,​ the city of San Diego has built the United States'​ largest "smart city" platform. At the center of this platform are smart streetlights with video, audio, data collection, and artificial intelligence capabilities​. This platform was pitched as a sustainability project, with no mention of these surveillance tools when it was approved by the San Diego city council. In this film, the TRUST San Diego coalition explores the unanswered questions about this platform and the deeper layers of surveillance at play in San Diego. ​
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TRUST SD Coalition

10 Real Facts About San Diego's Smart Streetlight Program and TRUST SD Coalition
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Voice of San Diego

In July, smart streetlight surveillance was changed to make it available only to police.
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Ummah Wide

San Diego Streetlights Target Communities of Color in Unprecedented use of Technology in the United States

TRUST SD Coalition In The News

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Union Tribune: Backlash against secret streetlight surveillance cameras prompts new privacy board

  • 5th Apr 2022

Panel of experts, community leaders will help city avoid approving surveillance unfair to low-income areas.

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NBC 7: San Diego PD's Covert Use of iPhone Spyware

  • 18th Aug 2020
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VOSD: The Mission Creep of Smart Streetlights

  • 3rd Feb 2020
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NBC 7: City Councilmembers Call For Outside Legal Help On Smart Street Lights

  • 3rd Feb 2020
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VOSD Podcast: Shedding Light on the Streetlights Debate

  • 31st Jan 2020
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VOSD: Moreno Questions Smart Streetlights Funding Source

  • 3rd Feb 2020
Credit: Julius Drost

Union-Tribune: City committee rejects Smart Street Lights surveillance policy in San Diego, wants a law instead

  • 29th Jan 2020
Credit: Julius Drost

Union-Tribune: Proposed rules for access, use of data from San Diego’s controversial eye-in-the-sky street lights make debut

  • 28th Jan 2020
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KUSI: City Attorney and community advocates spar over streetlight cameras

  • 28th Jan 2020
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KUSI: Privacy rights and surveillance

  • 21st Jan 2020
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San Diego Union-Tribune - 12/22/19

  • 11th Dec 2019
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Fox 5 San Diego: Community coalition hosts forum on 'smart streetlights'

  • 11th Dec 2019
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Voice of San Diego: San Diegans Shouldn’t Be Lab Rats for Innovation

  • 24th Sep 2019
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KUSI: Community members call for end to ‘Smart Streetlights’ in San Diego

  • 17th Sep 2019
Credit: Isaiah Rustad

San Diego Union-Tribune: How San Diego may be spying on you

  • 4th Oct 2019
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San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diegans share what they hope to see accomplished in 2020

  • 27th Dec 2019