The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been found to be non-compliant with the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, according to a recent report by the Department of Investigation's Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD (DOI OIG-NYPD). The report criticizes the NYPD for failing to provide adequate transparency regarding its use of surveillance technologies, including the Digidog robotic dog and an apparently abandoned subway robot. This lack of transparency persists despite previous warnings from the inspector general and indicates that the NYPD ignored the law. The report highlights that the NYPD's actions undermine public trust and violate the POST Act, which was enacted to ensure oversight of surveillance technology used by law enforcement.
Digidog dodged disclosures - a report found that the NYPD is still not complying with a four-year old surveillance technology oversight law. https://t.co/c8pCPObZcO
New records reveal @MinneapolisPD repeatedly misrepresented how it uses discipline methods to handle lowest-level policy violations, and show how access to public information can fill gaps created by lack of transparency by law enforcement. https://t.co/1ynuoukTyK
Transparency is critical to the balance between safety and civil liberties—but this IG report shows that the NYPD continues to flout the law. Violating the POST Act by withholding basic information about DigiDog and other surveillance technology erodes public trust in @NYPDnews. https://t.co/S0iECqCrPh
New York Police Department flouts technology oversight law, report finds https://t.co/fsqPbBNjp8
The city's Department of Investigation is unimpressed with the NYPD's level of transparency regarding new technologies, including the apparently abandoned subway robot: https://t.co/75Y4wFKJJo
NYPD ignored the law by not being more transparent about the Digidog — *and* ignored a previous report from the inspector general saying the same thing. https://t.co/LjQuzlhQka
DOI’s OIG-NYPD issues report assessing NYPD’s compliance with the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act. Read it here: https://t.co/LhrDsELjYg https://t.co/fx692DsBIR