We are also on Bluesky now!
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Puget Sound Prisoner Support
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An anarchist collective providing jail and prisoner support in the so-called Pacific Northwest since 2015.
Movement Criminalization: A look at the history and laws at the government's disposal to attack social movements
This presentation will address police and prosecutors' favored tactics for criminalizing social movements (such as RICO charges and grand jury subpoenas) to help us assess risk, prepare, and respond to these threats.
Friday May 9 6-8pm
Pipsqueak Gallery, 173 16th Ave
#Seattle
Our May prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 5/4 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce).
No experience necessary.
All supplies provided.
Just bring yourself!
Our April prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 4/6 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce).
No experience necessary.
All supplies provided.
Just bring yourself!
Weather is heating up and that means travel season! But state repression/surveillance/harassment is heating up too, esp at border crossings.
This guide to rights and digital security at US border crossings was written in 2022, but all the information is still good, accurate and relevant even though it doesn't include all the details of our current circumstances, esp as it relates to detention and denial of entry of visa and green card holders. I think it's an especially useful guide for US citizens who don't have immigration considerations.
"At the Threshold of the Empire: Border Crossings, Government Harassment, and How to Protect Yourself"
At the Threshold of the Empire: Border Crossings, Government Harassment, and How to Protect Yourself
Last weekend, an activist from Austin was detained at the Austin airport by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon reentry to the U.S. after traveling abroad. They were held for about 3 hours and…
Our March prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 3/2 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce).
No experience necessary.
All supplies provided.
Just bring yourself!
While the Privacy Impact Assessment couches the benefits of ForceMetrics in vague rhetoric around "service delivery" to and improving relations with the Indigenous community, the report also lists another use case targeting a different demographic: unhoused people.
If you've witnessed a sweep, you know "support[ing] individuals in accessing the necessary resources" has never been a priority. This paragraph instead appears to weaponize the language of "community safety" to further track and stack charges against people already struggling to survive.
Redmond Police explained in a recent interview that ForceMetrics is used to pull and summarize data using AI from police databases, reports, and previous encounters, including mental health diagnoses and encountered locations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biXC9mgZvlY
On their website, ForceMetrics also touts their product as a way to combat "organized retail crime" by similarly hooking into large retailers' smart barcodes, surveillance alerts, and license plate readers.
https://www.forcemetrics.com/blog-posts/fighting-organized-retail-crime
Redmond, WA police adopt AI-powered tool
Surveillance Technology Determination Reports are quarterly reports listing technologies the city wants to acquire and determinations of whether each technology fits the criteria of "surveillance technology" and must go through the surveillance ordinance process.
Privacy Impact Assessments outline the privacy risks the city sees arising from their use of a technology.
The Seattle Police Department appears to be trying to acquire another dystopian AI tool called ForceMetrics, according to Surveillance Technology Determination Report and Privacy Impact Assessment documents posted recently.
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Surveillance/CTO%20Quarterly%20Reports/2024/Q3_2024_Surveillance%20Technology%20Determination%20Report.pdf
https://seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Privacy/PIA%202025/Forcemetrics_PIA_2025.pdf
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Surveillance/CTO%20Quarterly%20Reports/2024/Q3_2024_Surveillance%20Technology%20Determination%20Report.pdf
https://seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Privacy/PIA%202025/Forcemetrics_PIA_2025.pdf