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NYPD's lack of transparency on surveillance contracts
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3 min
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Jerome Greco from Legal Aid Society discusses the ongoing struggle to obtain transparency regarding NYPD's surveillance contracts. He highlights the difficulties in accessing budget records and the NYPD's efforts to keep this information hidden.
- Legal Aid Society and STOP have been fighting for over four years to access surveillance contract information
- NYPD provided heavily redacted contracts, often hiding vendor names and spending amounts
- The department intentionally kept records in non-digital format to avoid transparency
- A recent court ruling will require NYPD to turn over the requested information