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Mohammad Tajsar Profile picture
Mohammad Tajsar
@mtajsar
Guy at @ACLU_SoCal. Other things too.
Mar 15, 2023 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
I love transit, and this piece in @latimes is outrageous. There is lots we can do to improve rider experience, but fearmongering *at the exact time that Metro wants to dump even more money into cops* ain't it.

Source: I sat in Metro’s Public Safety Advisory Committee. Thread👇🏽 This reporter keeps writing that crime is way up on the system. You’d think this has been a long time coming, that Metro is out of control, and that once-faithful riders are “bailing” on the system. But the numbers don’t bear this out at all.
Mar 8, 2022 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
What does the law say when governments and private companies collect your deeply personal data without justification?

This afternoon, I'll be in court arguing that governments cannot cavalierly collect your precise GPS locations from vehicles you ride.

Read this 🧵: This case is about scooters & shared bikes. The City of LA's Dep't of Transportation created a program to regulate scooter/bike share cos that by demanding they turn over in real-time precise GPS locations of every vehicle and ride made in the City of LA.

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Dec 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
When ppl from Pasadena CA heard their police wanted $80k for new license plate readers in September from a company famous for data with the feds, they spoke against the acquisition. The cops promised to protect the data, so the City got the tech anyway. Guess what happened next? Surprise, the cops got the new hardware but started sharing the data with the feds anyway. And not just any feds, *literally almost all of the feds*: ICE, CBP, Border Patrol, the FBI, the local fusion center, the US marshals, and even the US Forest Service and the USPS cops.
Sep 28, 2019 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Breaking #ICE news: After holding a trial, federal judge in Los Angeles rules that ICE cannot rely on patchwork of federal databases to detain people held in state and local custody, invalidating the single biggest method that ICE uses to detain people across the country. Judge also rules that ICE cannot issue so-called "detainers" - requests to state/local jailers to hold people for ICE to pick up - in states that don't explicitly authorize their employees to cooperate with ICE. That means detainers are invalid in states like CA and NY.