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(The Center Square) - Gubernatorial candidates in Nevada have stressed the need to regulate artificial intelligence-powered automated license plate readers. Their comments came late this week after a Nevada legislative committee voted unanimously at a recent meeting to draft a bill with legal guidelines for ALPRs, which include Flock cameras. There's a national debate over the technology’s security value versus privacy concerns. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, and Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat running against Lombardo in the Nov. 3 gubernatorial election, have both expressed support for the regulation of ALPRs, although to varying degrees. “There are no standards in place right now, so what this would do is establish those standards for our agencies to follow,” said Brad Wilkinson, counsel for the Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary, at an Aug. 25 meeting. That meeting is when the committee unanimously passed an order to draft a legal framework around the use of ALPRs in Nevada. The technology, which automatically takes pictures of all license plates that pass the cameras’ view, can be used to track suspects in crime investigation. The move to regulate ALPRs comes ahead of Nevada’s legislative session, which will start in February 2027. Committee members acknowledged the variety of opinions on the technology’s use across the state, but agreed some form of regulation should exist for ALPRs. Currently there is no legislation specifically related to ALPRs in Nevada, according to Wilkinson. “It seemed appropriate to at least have a vehicle to hash out those details, and if we’re able to come to some kind of conclusion about how we should be regulating the use of these cameras, then we can do that with this particular bill,” state Sen. Melanie Scheible, D-Clark County, said at the meeting. Clark County is Nevada's most populous county and is home to Las Vegas. Plans for Nevada’s ALPR bill come as a national discussion on the topic has exploded in recent months. One major ALPR company, Flock Safety, has previously reported that its products are being used by law enforcement agencies across thousands of counties and nearly every U.S. state. More recently, over 100 cities have reportedly deactivated cameras or canceled contracts with the company after public backlash, including calls to vandalize the cameras, according to anti-ALPR advocacy group DeFlock. Flock Safety and supporters of the technology have highlighted its use in flagging suspects in time-sensitive criminal cases. The company has frequently published stories of successful uses of its ALPRs for solving crimes on its website. “Flock’s technology is an important public safety tool for law enforcement agencies across America, helping officers solve serious crimes and find missing people,” Flock Safety spokesperson Ashley Muranakatoolsie told The Center Square in an email. “We support thoughtful, bipartisan legislation that puts strong privacy, transparency, and accountability guardrails in place while preserving law enforcement’s ability to use technology responsibly to keep people safe.” But opponents have pointed to a string of abuses of ALPRs by police across the country, with many public cases of officers using the cameras to track or stalk former personal relationships. Back in Nevada, this year’s candidates for governor have weighed in on the issue. Lombardo’s office said he supported the use of ALPR and other AI-powered camera technology by Nevada law enforcement, but said they needed regulations. “These tools can strengthen public safety, but they must be accompanied by strong safeguards to protect the privacy and constitutional rights of citizens,” Lombardo’s spokesperson Drew Galang told The Center Square in an email. Ford said he did not support the state’s current use of the technology. “Flock cameras raise serious concerns about Nevadans’ right to privacy,” the attorney general said in an email to The Center Square. “Nevada needs stringent rules to protect against the abuse of Flock cameras, and as Governor I will work with lawmakers to pass into law these essential guardrails. Until Nevadans have these protections, I do not support the use of Flock cameras.”

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(The Center Square) - False information led Congress and others to appropriate tens of millions of dollars in cities across the nation for the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion model, data shows. As reported by The Center Square, Washington Policy Center recently produced analysis revealing that 11 years of claims by LEAD backers related to reduced recidivism and arrest rates were based on inaccurate numbers that were repeated over and over again as evidence of the success of the program. LEAD gives police officers a way to redirect people dealing with substance abuse or mental health issues, away from jail and criminal prosecution. Now, in a second report, from WPC’s Director of Public Safety Solutions Policy Eric Zimmerman, says Congress needs to put the brakes on any further funding for LEAD programs until further scrutiny is applied. “It turns out that you gave us numbers that were false in persuading us to do it. I think that's a problem,” said Zimmerman in a Friday interview with The Center Square. “We've got a clear example here where not just Seattle City Council, not just Washington State's legislature, but dozens of cities and dozens of states, and then the U.S. Congress, were pulled into this pattern of false numbers being used to change federal law, to change state laws.," he said "Hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds going to this thing. And if it turns out that these numbers were wrong all along." Supporters of LEAD claim the program reduced recidivism by 58%, reduced felony charges by 39% and increased odds of being employed by 46%. The underlying research contradicts those claims. “Initial press releases and advertising proudly declared: 'People in LEAD were 58% less likely than people in the control group to be arrested.' Subsequent materials claimed LEAD 'reduced recidivism for all crimes by 58%,'" noted Zimmerman. “These claims were false. They roughly doubled or tripled the study’s practical results by confusing an abstract statistical measure — a loosely described 58% odds change — with percentage and likelihood drops in real-world arrests,” noted Zimmerman’s article. When The Center Square interviewed LEAD co-creator Lisa Daugaard upon WPC’s initial report in early August, she admitted that the 58% number has been inaccurately reported and said they will amend the figure. “It's not a 58% reduction in the absolute number of arrests for the LEAD participants. It is a 58% reduced likelihood of being arrested compared to a comparison group. But WPC is not wrong. It should not be sort of flattened or further simplified as a 58% reduction in the number of arrests. That is the mistake,” Daugaard said. The HaRRT Center at the University of Washington, which has conducted independent evaluations of Seattle's LEAD program, published an 11-page letter refuting Zimmerman's original analysis. "Although we were not responsible for additional reporting and were not typically consulted on how the program evaluation was discussed, we are happy to help correct the record. We are also supportive of organizations doing their best to use and discuss the evidence base in planning community-based interventions," the Aug. 16 letter said. "With that said, the statistical findings of the original HaRRT Center LEAD evaluation — published across three peer-reviewed articles and four reports — still stand," the letter said. Zimmerman has called for Congress to begin immediate scrutiny of all LEAD funding, as thousands of elected officials have been presented with false versions of LEAD’s “evidence”, which led to appropriating hundreds of millions of dollars for a program. Among those members of Congress who cited LEAD success in securing additional federal funding was Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington. She introduced an amendment to 2016’s CARA act, incorrectly claiming “LEAD successfully reduces recidivism [reoffending] by as much as 60 percent.” During debate over the amendment, Republicans echoed the 60 percent figure and congratulated Rep. DelBene on her amendment. The Center Square reached out to Congresswoman DelBene on Friday for comment on WPC’s report. “Revisiting and clarifying LEAD’s evidence and methodology should not be used to justify defunding the entire program. LEAD has a proven track record of reducing recidivism, a fact supported by subsequent research. It is supported by police officers, prosecutors, local leaders, businesses, and participants, which is why communities across the country continue to adopt it," wrote Nick Martin, a DelBene spokesperson via email. "Rep. DelBene is always open to ideas of how to improve and strengthen a program. It’s disappointing that WPC published this report without allowing the original researchers to rebut these claims or provide further evidence,” he said. In response to the email from DelBene's office, Zimmerman wrote: "Rep DelBene does not appear to understand what she is supporting. LEAD's further research has shown mixed or negative result, typically showing an increase in criminal offending by LEAD participants after enrollment. LEAD sites also don't often report outcomes like mortality, stable employment, or housing independence. LEAD proves it can spend tax dollars, but not save lives or make communities safer." Andrea Suarez, Founder of We Heart Seattle has been a critic of LEAD for years. Her organization picks up drug needles and used foil in the parks and on the streets of Seattle, and work to get people addicted to drugs off the streets and into treatment. “These politicians were so desperate for incarceration and policing alternatives, so they could run on that," she said. "'We support LEAD, we support this alternative to incarceration. We support this alternative to putting handcuffs on a drug addict.' They loved it," said Suarez. She said LEAD supporters should be accountable for promoting false success numbers. “How many lives have been lost? How much damage in our communities, how many people are stuck in their cycle of addiction and crime? The life of crime because we're sitting here waiting for them to come up with their own plan,” said Suarez. King County Public Health recently provided a response to an inquiry from The Center Square regarding claims that the county's current policies facilitate higher overdose numbers rather than preventing them. "The influx of fentanyl led to a sharp rise in fatal overdoses across the U.S and in King County. Our comprehensive approach to overdose response and recovery focuses on getting more people into treatment and preventing more overdoses," wrote Sharon Bogan from Seattle & King County Public Health last month. "Harm reduction measures are critical but insufficient on their own to resolve the overdose and substance use disorder crises. Comprehensive mental and behavioral health services, affordable and accessible housing, employment pathways and case management are all needed as part of a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to addressing these challenges." "People need support and stability to help them get into treatment and prevent overdoses. That often means taking steps along the way like getting people connected to support and increasing the opportunities for people to access treatment services. Treatment stabilizes substance use and reduces long-term risk," she wrote. Washington state's drug overdose death rate remains among the highest in the nation. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids drive the majority of these fatalities, accounting for roughly 73% of total overdose deaths.

Mynor Moto cerró el proceso contra Luis Pacheco, Héctor Chaclán, Basilio Puac y Esteban Toc, cuatro autoridades indígenas de 2023, al concluir que no existen pruebas suficientes para llevarlos a juicio y descartó que los 48 Cantones y la Alcaldía Indígena de Sololá sean una “organización criminal”. Además, ordenó al Estado ofrecer una disculpa y ... Read more The post Juez cierra el caso contra cuatro autoridades indígenas appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

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