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Commissioner Johnson urges caution on proposed surveillance expansion, warns of disproportionate impacts
Summary
At a Metro Human Relations Commission meeting, Commissioner Johnson urged careful deliberation ahead of a city‑council hearing on a proposed expansion of surveillance, saying the change could disproportionately affect marginalized communities and citing a recent Department of Homeland Security policy change.
Commissioner Johnson told the Metro Human Relations Commission she is urging careful review of a proposed expansion of surveillance in downtown and other areas that is scheduled for a city-council hearing. She said the impacts would fall unequally across communities and urged officials to consider how the system might be used and who would be targeted.
"It is increasingly likely that it will make many in our community ... more prone…
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