"The report urges him to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from accessing city data, abolish police databases that disproportionately target Black and Latino New Yorkers, ground police drones, and ban facial recognition technology outright. It takes time to make change, to get settled into office, but with the Trump administration expanding deportation efforts in particular, there are steps he can take right now in virtue of the powers vested in his office to act."
"The Brooklyn-based civil rights nonprofit, which has been fighting discriminatory surveillance and protecting the privacy and civil rights of New Yorkers through research, litigation, and policy advocacy since its launch in 2019, framed the report as a roadmap for carrying out Mamdani's campaign promises."
"Under the City Charter, the mayor oversees the NYPD through the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, a position the report and Manis argue is sufficient to make sweeping policy changes."
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project released a report outlining eight steps Mayor Zohran Mamdani can take to dismantle NYC's surveillance infrastructure without waiting for legislative approval. The report, titled "Dear Mamdani: Dismantle NYC's Surveillance State," urges the mayor to block ICE from accessing city data, abolish police databases that disproportionately target Black and Latino New Yorkers, ground police drones, and ban facial recognition technology. S.T.O.P., a civil rights nonprofit founded in 2019, framed the report as a roadmap for fulfilling Mamdani's campaign promises regarding police surveillance. The organization argues that under the City Charter, the mayor possesses sufficient authority through the police commissioner to implement these sweeping policy changes immediately, particularly given the Trump administration's expanded deportation efforts.
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