{"id":488198,"date":"2026-10-07T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488198\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:24:33","slug":"san-jose-residents-demand-police-chiefs-resignation-over-flock-camera-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488198\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose residents demand police chief\u2019s resignation over Flock camera misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Residents are calling for San Jose\u2019s police chief to step down, after revelations that a police officer used license plate tracking technology to help his cousin stalk a woman she alleges abused her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, a coalition of groups \u2014 including Safety over Surveillance, Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), Working Partnerships USA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment and more \u2014 are demanding San Jose cancel its contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-again-attempts-to-tighten-controls-on-license-plate-readers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surveillance company Flock Safety<\/a> and conduct an audit on its system of automatic license plate readers.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional roundup in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents are calling for San Jose\u2019s police chief to step down, after revelations that a police officer used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,28555,21001,28319,408,9295,88,90,89,2125,198,34000],"class_list":["post-488198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-flock-safety","tag-license-plate-readers","tag-paul-joseph","tag-police-accountability","tag-privacy","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police-department","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}