The American Civil Liberties Union of California has announced a “multi-city legislative initiative” to increase police transparency around its surveillance practices, TechCrunch reports. The ACLU began the Community Control Over Policing Surveillance initiative after requesting records from 63 California law enforcement agencies, ultimately finding that 40 percent of the responding groups used social media surveillance tools, “and most of them started using them within the last year” without notifying the government or the public, the report states. Meanwhile, The Hill reports that New York City officials have asked the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul its mobile emergency alert system in the wake of the New York and New Jersey bombings.
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