An intelligence effort by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is raising concerns, Newsweek reports. The “Prolific Offender Program” uses an “evidence-based risk assessment” to identify individuals with drug offense and violent crime histories, who are then offered resources by the sheriff’s office and community partners. The People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing coalition opposed the program, while NAACP Legal Defense Fund Assistant Counsel Lauren Johnson said increased surveillance “is not what makes people or communities more safe.”
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