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Public commenters urge halt to expansion of real‑time crime centers, cite ICE raids and surveillance concerns
Summary
During public comment at the June 6 Los Angeles City Council meeting, multiple speakers urged the council to stop expansion of real‑time crime centers and related surveillance (automatic license plate readers, CCTV) and said the systems can feed federal immigration enforcement.
At the June 6, 2025 Los Angeles City Council meeting, public commenters urged the council to halt the expansion of real‑time crime centers (RTCCs) and related surveillance systems, saying those systems risk feeding information to federal immigration enforcement and creating a citywide biometric dragnet.
A participant who identified themselves as part of a community self‑defense coalition described multiple ICE enforcement actions they said were under way in Los Angeles and linked those operations to what they called an expanding surveillance infrastructure. “You have automatic license plate readers. You have CCTV cameras. You have record management systems, which is a constant feeder to the federal government,” the…
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