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From the meeting · Board of Supervisors, · 0:27

Should the city renew its license-plate camera contract?

During general public comment, a speaker asks the board to hold a public hearing before the city renews its contract with a license-plate camera company, citing what he says were illegal searches of the data.

a member of the public

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a member of the public Nearly a 150 cities have cut ties, and San Francisco San Francisco is the outlier here.

a member of the public The problem is we were promised guardrails, but this is what we got.

a member of the public Out of state police running 1,600,000 searches of license plate data in seven months, illegal under California law.

a member of the public SFPD saying that that was fixed, but in June, an audit found hundreds more illegal searches.

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From the public recording of the Board of Supervisors, October 27, 2026. Picked and described with AI; the words are the meeting's own. Remove this clip