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Students being loaded into police buses at ucsd

Same university that built a protest memorial in Revelle Plaza to “infuse…past activism into the fabric of our future” for “all those who continue the struggle for a peaceful world” today.ucsd.edu/story/new_camp…

Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes The poorer the neighborhood, the more exposure residents faced wired.com/story/the-age-…

NEW: In 2018 the Chula Vista PD launched the US's 1st major police drone program, promising unusual transparency. A WIRED investigation based on 22M flight coordinates, public records, and more put that transparency to the test—Dhruv Mehrotra & Jesse Marx report: wired.com/story/the-age-…

aka class war in Chula Vista. My latest with Dhruv Mehrotra WIRED

Some San Diego Unified teachers are using AI to grade student essays and give them feedback. That came as a surprise to board members, who didn’t realize a contract they’d unanimously approved without discussion granted teachers access to an AI grading platform. voiceofsandiego.org/2024/06/12/the…

"An analysis of eight months of ShotSpotter alerts found that 87% of the time NYPD officers were dispatched to a scene where there was no evidence of a shooting or where they could not confirm a shooting occurred." via fola akinnibi bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

All Rise is on substack! Sign up, crush the donate button, and send a free copy of this community newspaper to someone in prison. Issue two will be out soon allrisesd.substack.com

Announcement, friends. I’m headed to San Diego State University to manage student media and mentor The Daily Aztec and KCR College Radio. This is a super important training ground for journalists and I’m stoked to get started!

California’s journalism funding bill appears to be turning into more of an “AI innovation” funding bill. And more of the funding for journalism in this draft proposal would come from taxpayers than tech companies.

This week, in a genuinely stunning series of events, a bill that was written to save local journalism from big tech was gutted in a backroom deal—and wound up bailing out Google and *boosting AI* instead. You can't make this stuff up. Here's how it happened.

San Diego Unified’s board has voted unanimously to fire Superintendent Lamont Jackson after an investigation substantiated allegations of misconduct with female staff. Bc the board terminated "without cause," they'll still pay him for the next 6 months. voiceofsandiego.org/2024/08/30/san…

If you thought yesterday's was bad, this is unhinged insane: Police who commit misconduct use secret deals to secure lifetime pensions. The departments and cities go along with the lie, wasting untold taxpayer money. sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

I am thrilled to announce that I will be teaching an investigative journalism course at SDSU in the spring. I can't wait, and now I am on the hunt for students! SDSU JMS students reach out if you have any questions about the course. [email protected]

Wow. Flock Safety (backed by a16z) hired a sitting mayor of a California city with 200k residents. That mayor is now suing Flock for wrongful termination, alleging Flock pressured him to use his position as mayor to benefit the startup techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/flo… via TechCrunch

🚨🚨🚨 Because of popular demand, we have released Pistachio Wars earlier than expected. Watch it now! Learn all about the billionaire farmers that privatized California’s water supply as California burns. gathr.com/vod/537d592b/p…

SDSU to spend $1.3M to overhaul its surveillance system with AI-enabled cameras at a time of campus-wide budget cuts The Daily Aztec Teal Davis thedailyaztec.com/121782/news/sd…

Huge CONGRATS to Susie Neilson Jennifer Gollan for being Pulitzer finalists for their investigation into deadly police pursuits! sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

The creeping end of public anonymity is a very big deal: washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…