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Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
The illegal data sharing started soon after Oakland's cameras went live in August 2024.
Two of the OPD’s earliest logs are Sept. 16 searches in which the San Francisco Police Department pulled data from Oakland’s cameras on behalf of investigators at the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. “If any CHP personnel requested license plate data on behalf of ICE for purposes of immigration enforcement, that would be a blatant violation of both state law and longstanding department policy,” the spokesperson wrote. The SFPD hasn’t responded to a request for its own logs filed by The Standard more than a month ago, but OPD records show San Francisco cops accessed Oakland’s data at least 100 times on behalf of federal agencies.
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