State and local law enforcement agencies around the country have been adopting high tech surveillance tools – like drones, biometric fingerprint readers, and facial recognition tools – in increasingly high numbers. But communities around the country (including many in Massachusetts!) are fighting back.

Attend our meeting on police surveillance on Wednesday, May 2nd to learn about community control over police surveillance, and how you can take action to help us pass an ordinance in Worcester. The ACLU model ordinance requires accountability, transparency, and meaningful community input about whether the city can purchase surveillance technology and how it is used.

We are ready to advance this ordinance in Worcester, but we need your help! Please join us to learn how together, we can improve police accountability and transparency.

This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available on both sides of King Street.

Join the ACLU's Jay Stanley for a discussion on The Public Internet Option, an ACLU report detailing how local governments can provide network neutrality, privacy, and access for all.

Jay is a senior policy analyst at the National ACLU and the principal author of the Public Internet Option report, which details how public-owned networks can help protect crucial freedoms while ensuring affordable, reliable service. With FCC rollbacks of net neutrality and privacy regulations, growing incumbent telecom monopoly power, and a growing digital divide, it is more important than ever to ensure a better internet for all.

Join the discussion, organized by Upgrade Cambridge and the ACLU of Massachusetts, with support from MIT’s Student Information Processing Board.

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