{"id":176372,"date":"2020-07-01T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/01\/that-which-can-be-destroyed-by-the-truth-should-be\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:44:00","slug":"that-which-can-be-destroyed-by-the-truth-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/01\/that-which-can-be-destroyed-by-the-truth-should-be\/","title":{"rendered":"That Which Can Be Destroyed by the Truth, Should Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of California police departments are ignoring the law and refusing to information about their surveillance technology&nbsp; documents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/5dzdqq\/california-police-are-using-copyright-to-hide-surveillance-documents\">claiming copyright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me the first to call bull sh%$:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">California police are refusing to release documents about the surveillance technology it uses, despite a new law that requires their release.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On January 1, SB 978 went into effect, which requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to &#8220;conspicuously&#8221; publish all law enforcement agency training materials. The agency has said that it will not comply on copyright grounds.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Any attempt to download training materials concerning facial recognition technology or automated license plate readers (ALPRs), as well as materials relating to courses on the use of force, lead to a Word document that reads &#8220;The course presented has claimed copyright for the expanded course online.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is complete crap.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t want the public about the technological terror that they have created, because they are afraid that the public will want to take away their new toys.<\/p>\n<p>The police can go Cheney themselves.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Credit to the author, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._C._Hodgell\">P.C. Hodgell<\/a>\u2019s from her novel <i>Seeker\u2019s Mask<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of California police departments are ignoring the law and refusing to information about their surveillance technology&nbsp; documents, claiming copyright. Let me the first to call bull sh%$: California police are refusing to release documents about the surveillance technology it uses, despite a new law that requires their release.On January 1, SB 978 went &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,364,387,526,681],"class_list":["post-176372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}