End Targeted Surveillance on BART
In the wake of the tragic murder of Nia Wilson, BART rushed to use her death as an excuse to try and ram through a dangerous multi-million dollar surveillance program - that undoubtedly would have led to even more unnecessary police interactions between Black BART riders and police -with only three days notice. But civil and racial justice coalitions rallied together and had community members deliver hours of passionate public testimony, resulting in BART rejecting the surveillance proposal that threatened the safety of Black riders.
In response to community pressure, BART is now moving forward with major reform legislation that ensure our communities get to decide what, if any, new surveillance technologies and programs BART will implement.. We now have an critical opportunity to push BART to be the first transit agency in the country to adopt measures that guard against intrusive surveillance of its riders, but we have to act fast!
The ordinance up for a hearing this week will make sure there will be no anti-Black surveillance proposals on three days notice again, and that the community gets a say on what security measures we want.