New York City to require police to disclose all surveillance technology

StateScoop: The New York Police Department, the nation’s largest law-enforcement agency, will be required to disclose publicly a list of all the technologies it uses to surveil people, under a bill passed Thursday by the New York City Council.

Council members voted overwhelmingly to approve the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology, or POST, Act, the latest in series of steps New York officials have taken to make the city’s police more transparent after weeks of protests inspired by the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.

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