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shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 44m ago

commissioner jessica vásquez said the cook county board had yet to see a contract for briefcam, sheriff tom dart's proposed jail ai surveillance camera system. dart said breifcam will "save lives" and downplayed its facial recognition features while hyping up its object recognition features (?).

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

new: sheriff tom dart is quietly pitching the cook county board on two new surveillance systems that could be approved as soon as thursday. dart wants $2 million for a software that uses ai to monitor the jail’s cameras for drug use and nearly $1 million for more flock license plate readers.

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 2h ago

the illinois department of corrections is expanding a free phone call program. incarcerated people and their loved ones say it’s a step in the right direction but raised issues with call quality and the fact that they still have to pay to send written messages. via @tatiwm.bsky.social

Illinois prisons expand free phone calls - Chicago Reader

The Voices of Connection program gives incarcerated people 775 minutes of free phone calls per month.

chicagoreader.com

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h ago

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

404media.co

Steven Melendez@smelendez.bsky.social · 16h ago

Peoria is running tourism ads where they say they can’t guarantee an epic weekend but you will have a “perfectly reasonable weekend.” They show white people looking at brick buildings and eating caprese salad and cake.

Discoverpeoria ad showing a woman with a serving of cake and the phrase “is a perfectly reasonable weekend”
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 17h ago

Community members are re-liberating space tonight from killer cops in Madison, Wisconsin. Here’s a still image from a live feed filmed about an hour ago, community members can be heard chanting, “Say his name, Corey Ruiz.”

Dozens of community re-liberating space. A destroyed memorial for Corey Ruiz is seen in the foreground.
Michael Barajas@michaelbarajas.bsky.social · yesterday

The GOP county exec in Tarrant Co (Fort Worth) often kicks people out for speaking up to protest county govt actions at public meetings. Today he shut it down amid outrage over the plan to cut nearly half of election day polling places this year (as he himself faces a heated race for county exec)

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com