As technology advances, drones will play an increasingly intrusive, useful, frightening, exciting and challenging role in our collective lives. Governments have trouble regulating quick-changing things in an effective manner so I asked my assistant, Wil Durbin, to draft a memo capturing some of the issues Cambridge might expect to see […] Read more »
Limiting Surveillance Technology by Ordinance
FYI, Folks: This proposed Ordinance, pasted as an attachment to the Order below, on the purchase and use of surveillance technology in Cambridge was on the Council’s agenda this past Monday but I was too disorganized over the weekend to let you know about it. It is a very comprehensive […] Read more »
City’s legal opinion on regulating drones
This opinion, from the Cambridge City Solicitor, highlights some issues we might want to consider should we decide to try to regulate drone use in Cambridge. Read more »
The Face of Public Safety is Changing
At a recent CPD event I attended, Commissioner Haas noted that the face of Cambridge policing changed the moment the first bomb went off at the Boston Marathon. Subsequent events in Cambridge, the ongoing discussion of surveillance cameras and CPD vehicle mounted license plate readers and previous events ranging from […] Read more »
Cambridge Considering a CPD surveillance (security) camera policy
Since August, 2012, I have been leading a discussion on the possible use of City-operated surveillance cameras in Cambridge. At this point, CPD has proposed a policy that I feel has enough privacy safeguards and commitments to transparency that I can support it. At our 24 June meeting, the Council […] Read more »