Organizations are sharing concerns over ordinances that could add surveillance cameras to several high-crime areas in Seattle.
At Tuesday's Public Safety Committee meeting, council members approved bills for the technology pilot program that would not only add CCTV cameras to downtown Seattle , the Chinatown-International District and Aurora Avenue North, but give Seattle Police access to videos, potentially from private cameras, in these neighborhoods through real-time crime center software.
"We have seen in some cases that, yes, law enforcement has misused their access to this type of information and that has caused a lot of headache and trauma and stress for people who were participating in their First Amendment right to express how they feel about state violence," said Beryl Lipton, Senior Investigative Researcher with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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