Since President Donald Trump took office, the federal government has noticeably expanded its use of surveillance tools and artificial intelligence to target immigrants, allegedly in the name of fighting crime and fraud.
Surveillance video triggers arrest in CID sidewalk attack
A man is in custody after surveillance footage helped police track him down following a brutal pipe attack on a woman in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID).
Is the CID being spied upon? Surveillance legislation passes, in spite of significant opposition
For its third straight meeting, Seattle’s Public Safety Committee listened to dissent against proposed pieces of legislation from a majority of public commenters—one of whom brought a detailed opposition letter from Seattle Solidarity Budget, signed by 60 organizations and 431 individuals—and voted unanimously to pass them, anyway, at its Sept. 24 meeting.