[liberationtech] Public surveillance

[Gregory Foster]

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On 2/28/14 12:49 AM, Marcin de Kaminski wrote:
> Do any of you know of _any_ country that has some kind of
> transparency regarding its domestic surveillance? Are there for
> instance, somewhere, public records if security police or other law
> enforcement agency wiretaps, etc?

We've begun to have some success in Austin, Texas getting the local
fusion center to open up.  The Austin Regional Intelligence Center was
chartered with an oversight body responsible for monitoring and
suggesting changes to the center's privacy policy which, to some
degree, governs the information-generation and -sharing hub's
operations.  The meeting minutes are Texas Open Records, so they're
available for the asking.  The advisory committee suggested ARIC save
time, money, and gain a transparency win by voluntarily posting the
minutes on their website:
https://arictexas.org/default.aspx?menuitemid=662&menugroup=ARIC+Home

I've re-posted the minutes to SoundCloud where they can be downloaded.

Austin Regional Intelligence Center - Privacy Policy Advisory
Committee (Dec 13, 2013)
https://soundcloud.com/gregoryfoster/aric-ppac-2013_12_13

Local journalist Julie Wilson is the first to write about this.

Liberty Beat (Feb 25) - "Texas Fusion Center Secrets Revealed":
http://thelibertybeat.com/exclusive-texas-fusion-center-secrets-revealed/
https://twitter.com/JulieJay2904/status/438277601375703040

If you're interested in this stuff, please contact me off list as it
may be possible to replicate this model across the country.  There's a
state-level working group looking at that possibility for Texas fusion
centers.
http://www.weblaws.org/texas/laws/tex._gov't_code_section_421.083_texas_fusion_center_policy_council

gf

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Gregory Foster || gfoster at entersection.org
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