August 3rd, 2025 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording:

Projects/Events

2025 Voter Outreach

Leader: Jamie

Based on Mass. Election Division data, we have 721 voters. Alec is contacting all of the municipalities that have not fulfilled our public records request.

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

• Pirate news recording scheduled for every other Sunday, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Commonwealth Bills to Review

• An Act Protecting Personal Security H.1973/S.1045 - Suggested by Pirate Rikki
• An Act to promote transparency of facial recognition and driver's license photos ([https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1731 S.1731))
• An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology (H.1946/S.1053)
• An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (H.3749 / S.2438)
• An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (H.2687)
• Dignity Not Deportations Act (H.1588 / S.1122)
• Right to Repair Bills:
  • H.433 & S.189
  • H.398
  • H.1278 (Hearing occurred)
• Decrim Sex Work Bills from https://bswac.org/. Emailed Rikki and Desmond their thoughts on them as they are the most up to date on the issue:
  • An Act to promote the health and safety of people in the sex trade (H.1980)
  • An Act to study the decriminalization of sex work (H.2467)
  • An Act relative to safe reporting (H.1747)
  • An Act relative to sexual assault by an officer (H.2634)

Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.

Bills We Decided On

• An Act to provide accountability in the use of biometric recognition technology and comprehensive enforcement (H.96/S.36)
• Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (H.1953)

Federal Bills to Review

• Anti-File Sharing bills:
  • Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (H.R.791) - ...more
  • American Copyright Protection Act (Not yet posted) ...more)
  • ... more on the bills at https://torrentfreak.com/fears-of-overblocking-unite-critics-of-u-s-pirate-site-blocking-bill/
• Kids Online Safety Act (S.1748)
• Pro Codes Act (H.R.4009 ...more
• American Music Fairness Act (H.R.861)

Participants

• Jamie
• Steve

Summary

Voter outreach

• Alec following up with cities that haven't provided voter lists. There are around 40 of them.

Commonwealth Bills