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Eye on Surveillance

Points of Unity

Government surveillance, past and present, has been utilized to target black, brown, queer, and working communities in the interest of public safety. However, the fact remains that surveillance does not reduce crime and only further criminalizes those same communities. Eye on Surveillance is a group of community members and organizations working together under two points of unity:

  1. Halt the local government’s expansion of surveillance tools such as facial recognition and increase oversight of current government surveillance methods.
  1. Work with communities who are targets of policing and surveillance to explore and implement evidence-based community safety options that dismantle systems of oppression.
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A group of three Black EOS members in front of City Hall holding signs that say "Ban Racist Tech", "Surveillance Ain't Safety", and "Worth $3.8 million??"

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Sawt

How we use Retrieval Augmented Generation to counteract city surveillance expansion

New Orleans & Gaza - Connected by Cameras
New Orleans & Gaza - Connected by Cameras

Israel’s investments in spyware and surveillance technology have direct implications for us and our neighbors.

Surveillance and Data Protections Ordinance
Surveillance and Data Protections Ordinance

Ord. 33021, passed in December 2020, banned four technologies that infringe upon our civil liberties and have built-in racial bias, & secured common sense data protections for the 21st century.

Surveillance is Trash
Surveillance is Trash

Through two community clean up events, one in the Lower 9th and one in the Desire neighborhood, EOS and partners came together to show that New Orleans can address dumping without surveillance.

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New Orleans and Israel - Connected by Surveillance
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New Orleans and Israel - Connected by Surveillance

New Orleanians pay surveillance companies millions of our tax dollars every year to watch us and our neighbors - the same surveillance tech was tested on Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.

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 EOS signs on to Stop Cop City Corporate Week of Action
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EOS signs on to Stop Cop City Corporate Week of Action

We at the Eye on Surveillance Coalition, in solidarity with the American Friends Services Committee and organizers on the ground with the Stop Cop City movement, urgently call for action against the development of the militarized police training facility, "Cop City," in the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta.

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Retrieval Augmented Generation for New Orleans City Council Transparency
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Retrieval Augmented Generation for New Orleans City Council Transparency

How a New Orleans group is using AI to counteract city surveillance expansion.

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New Orleans and Jefferson Parish both use facial recognition. It just led to the arrest of an innocent man.
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New Orleans and Jefferson Parish both use facial recognition. It just led to the arrest of an innocent man.

On November 25, 2022 an innocent black man sat in jail for a week because of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff Office’s use of facial recognition. New Orleans also uses facial recognition and lacks safeguards to protect innocent residents.

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