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February 2021

In January, New Yorkers learned more about the NYPD's use of a broad range of technologies designed to keep tabs on them. The documents released by the NYPD came as a result of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, known as the POST Act, passed by City Council in July. The documents provide detail into 36 separate surveillance technologies used by the department, ranging from gunshot detection to the employment of drones. New York civil liberty organizations on Tuesday called for more transparency into the ways that the NYPD conducts surveillance in an online event pulled together by 10 groups, including