Accomplishments

5,500 members and growing.

Ran a public education campaign that compelled supervisors to amend and improve a law banning the use of facial recognition technology in city-run video surveillance. We supported a moratorium on facial recognition because the technology was new and had many flaws. But loopholes in the legislation jeopardized the ability of police to receive and use traditional security video provided by private residents and businesses — safe video that was essential for solving crimes. We raised the issue in several OpEds and a letter writing campaign that supervisors responded to. They made the amendments we suggested. 

Helped save $1 million for additional police foot patrols. The police department wanted to spend a $2 million budget surplus on more neighborhood foot patrols. But supervisors moved to spend the surplus on their own pet projects instead. Hundreds of our members wrote to the budget committee within 24 hours to object. The public pressure compelled supervisors to return $1 million for foot patrols.

Conducted candidate debates focused on public safety issues for mayor, district attorney and judicial seats that each drew a live audience of more than 400 people.