Project Green Light is a racist surveillance program with over 700 facial
recognition cameras across the city. We urge you to support your
residents, not surveil them, and to end Project Green Light now. [ [link removed] ]Take Action!


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The city of Detroit has spent 5.5 million dollars of taxpayer money to
embed racist facial recognition technology across 700 Project Green Light
cameras. The city says Project Green Light is meant to stop crime, instead
it discriminates against communities in the United States’ blackest city. 

The city’s contract with Dataworks Plus–the key technology provider–ends
in September 2022 and we have the opportunity to halt this surveillance
project. The last time there was a vote to renew this project the city
almost voted against it. This time around could be different but the
Detroit community needs all the help they can get. 

The Detroit City Council decision is in the spotlight, let us show them
that we are watching too. You can help push city council members on the
fence to stop funding towards racist tech, and to reinvest that money into
the community.

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them

Project Green Light has kept residents of Detroit under the constant dread
of being surveilled. The community wonders if they will be the next person
falsely arrested.

On 9 January 2020, Robert Williams pulled up to his family home and was
falsely arrested on his front lawn by Detroit Police who used Project
Green Light’s flawed facial recognition algorithm. Robert Williams' case
is just one of many.

Facial recognition technologies disproportionately affect marginalized
peoples, including black and brown communties, undocumented, formerly
incarcerated, unhoused, and the poor.

Despite a lawsuit from the ACLU and massive civil society uproar,
Detroit’s Mayor and chief of police are committed to expanding Project
Green Light.

Detroit officials, including the police, double down by applauding Project
Green Light for reducing crime even though there is no evidence. Residents
have instead called on the city to reinvest that money into the community
which has been proven to reduce crime. 

Detroit is a litmus test for other majority black and brown cities. If
Detroit is allowed to continue to build its surveillance project, other
cities will follow suit.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Maen and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Detroit to boost surveillance transparency but skeptics remain
Detroit Free Press 29 May 2021
 
[ [link removed] ]Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
The New York Times 24 June 2020
 

 

 

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