""Our elected officials seem to think that surveillance technology is the only solution for all the problems, whether it's illegal dumping or homelessness or violent crime. It's like we don't have any other solutions other than building these massive systems, and I'm not going to be part of building that.""
""I felt like nothing I was doing mattered.""
Brian Hofer, former chair of the Privacy Advisory Commission and District 1 commissioner, and Sean Everhart, District 7 commissioner, resigned from the civilian oversight board last week. Hofer had served since the commission’s 2016 establishment and was serving in a holdover capacity after his term expired in March. Everhart’s term was scheduled to end in March 2026. They cited city leaders’ apparent preference for surveillance technology as a catch-all solution, concerns that the City Council will ignore commission recommendations, potential legal exposure from privacy-law violations, and a sense that their work had become ineffective. Hofer also criticized the City Attorney’s Office.
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