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Comment by Justin Cummings
Former Santa Cruz mayor
Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disproportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz. [...] "help eliminate racism in policing".
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(2020)
6mo ago
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Quote content corroborated through multiple independent sources (Santa Cruz Works, Courthouse News, Sight Magazine, Oakland Privacy) reporting on the June 23, 2020 unanimous Santa Cruz city council vote banning predictive policing and facial recognition. Justin Cummings was indeed Mayor of Santa Cruz at the time. The vote alignment (for "Ban predictive policing") matches the quote content. Original source URL (news.trust.org/Reuters) was inaccessible to WebFetch but the quote is widely attributed and consistent across reports. Note: quote is from 2020, predates 2025/2026, but no clear replacement recent quote found from this former mayor on the same topic.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 4d ago
replying to Justin Cummings