February 13th, 2025 Meeting

Recording:

Reports

What to do?

S15 - Proposed joint rules - Make conference committees open to the public unless majority wants it to be an executive meeting and thus not open to the public.
Location Shield Act (SD 501/HD2965)
An Act relative to unregulated face recognition and emerging biometric surveillance technologies (HD2726)
An Act establishing a moratorium on face recognition and other remote biometric surveillance systems (SD671)
An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (HD2542)
An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (HD4038)
Dignity Not Deportations Act (HD3596/SD1107)
Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (HD2971)
Right to Repair (SD 732, HD 397, HD 1300, HD 3779, HD 3617)

We haven't adhered to our Articles of Agreement's Member Meetings section strictly since we have existed, specifically the [ https://masspirates.org/wiki/Articles_of_Agreement#4.2_Form Form] and Time sections. Meetings have met weekly and bi-weekly (our current form) and not twice a year each over six weeks.

Should we rework them. Specific issues:

Leader: Joseph

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