{"id":6320,"date":"2020-02-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2020-02-13T07:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:59:57","slug":"find-out-if-your-municipality-uses-facial-recognition-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/find-out-if-your-municipality-uses-facial-recognition-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out if your Municipality uses Facial Recognition Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to everyone who filled out MuckRock&#8217;s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/project\/police-surveillance-facial-recognition-use-in-your-backyard-452\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOIA request system\u00a0to find out whether police are using\u00a0facial recognition technology and how<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/foi\/list\/?q=&amp;status=&amp;user-autocomplete=&amp;agency-autocomplete=&amp;jurisdiction-autocomplete=&amp;jurisdiction=1-True&amp;projects-autocomplete=&amp;projects=452&amp;tags-autocomplete=&amp;has_embargo=&amp;has_crowdfund=&amp;minimum_pages=&amp;date_range_0=&amp;date_range_1=&amp;file_types=&amp;search_title=\" target=\"_blank\">Eleven requests are up for Massachusetts<\/a>, but that still\u00a0leaves 340 cities and towns we can file FOIA requests in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process to send a request to your municipality or any other you are interested in is easy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/project\/police-surveillance-facial-recognition-use-in-your-backyard-452\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go to their project page<\/a><\/li><li>Fill out the form at the bottom of the page<\/li><li>Complete any steps they have to create an account<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it. It will email your request and send followup emails until you get the information you requested.\u00a0 If you already have a MuckRock account, please login first before you go to their project page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a nationwide effort, so if you live outside of Massachusetts you can still file for your own community or even any community in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This effort is a very easy way to help the effort to stop\u00a0facial recognition technology in Massachusetts.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/project\/police-surveillance-facial-recognition-use-in-your-backyard-452\/\">Please take a few minutes to fill out the form<\/a> and, if you want, drop us an email at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org?subject=Facial%20Recognition%20Tech%20FOIA%3A%20I%20submitted%20in\" target=\"_blank\">info@masspirates.org<\/a>\u00a0telling us you submitted a FOIA request and in what community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who filled out MuckRock&#8217;s\u00a0FOIA request system\u00a0to find out whether police are using\u00a0facial recognition technology and how. 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