TAG & ACLU Negotiate Changes To Privacy Policy For Austin Fusion Center - "All Hazards" Removed!

"All hazards" Approach Dropped from Austin Fusion Center!

We successfully lobbied for the removal of the overly vague public safety and "all hazards" approach language from the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) policy documents. Thanks to all of TAG's great activists and our partners Matt Simpson and Debbie Russell with the ACLU, along with the 11th hour release of the ARIC grant application documents (see previous post http://tagtexas.org/?p=286 ), we were able to hold the Austin Police Department to its word that the fusion center will only be used for criminal intelligence.

While the poor performance by the City's Public Safety Commission, with the notable exception of Ramey Ko, in vetting the fusion center interlocal agreement and privacy policy coupled with the concerns over the suppressed KeyPoint report (http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/News/Blogs/index.html/objID1026085/blog­ID/)
illustrate continuing problems with transparency and accountability in the City of Austin government, this is a significant victory for the people of Central Texas!

Thanks to all the TAG volunteers that came out and spent hours waiting for our agenda item to come up! Some stayed from 10am til 8pm! You are what make TAG great!

If you weren't able to come out today and like what we are doing! Donate here: http://tagtexas.org/ monthly contributions needed!

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[briggsley]

These people are oganized crime!!!

[buzzybeemarketing]

They showed how fusion centers collect photos and finger prints with face recognition technology, from any source they could tap into. So I guess Disney World is fingerprinting all those people for a reason. I even read a story about a national book store fingerprinting visitors up north. We are going beyond insanity.

[edarotag84]

Chief fidel castro Jr why can't we get a born TEXAN as Police chief?

[shesapainter]

I thought his name was Chuck Young.....hmmmm