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ACLU Sends Letter Demanding Pasadena Police Stop ‘Mining Its Residents’ Social Media’ via Spokeo Pasadena PD urged to stop using data from Pasadena-based technology company Terry MILLER
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Executives from Spokeo donated several iPads to Mother’s Club Early Learning Center Christmas 2013. Executive Team members (left to right: Mike Daly, Ray Chen, Harrison Tang) – Photo by Terry Miller/ Beacon Media News
he American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California sent a letter to the City of Pasadena and the Pasadena Police Department urging the police department not to use aggregated social media data collected on Pasadena residents and end its contract with Spokeo, Inc., a social media monitoring company on Tuesday. The City of Pasadena contracts for Spokeo’s monitoring platform, Spokeo For Law Enforcement, “a massive, unregulated database of public records and social media postings available to the Pasadena PD,” According to a press release sent to our newspapers. “Spokeo’s history of maintaining inaccurate records within its databases makes reliance on that data by the Pasadena PD particularly dangerous and ripe for abuse,” the release stated. “The law doesn’t allow the police to keep SEE SPOKEO PAGE 12
PASADENA POLICE LOOKING FOR BURGLAR Suspect is a black male, 6’-0”/thin build, short black straight hair, approximately 30 to 40 years old On Thursday, October 7, 2017, at approximately 7:45 a.m., a resident told police he was awakened by noises and then confronted the suspect in his living room in the 100 block of North Mar Vista Avenue. The suspect ordered the resident back
into his bedroom by gesturing as if he was armed. The suspect fled in an unknown direction with items taken from the residence. The suspect appears to have entered the residence SEE BURGLAR PAGE 13
Pasadena Council Recap: Polls, Parks, and Parking ‘Straw poll’ reveals council favors CVPRA compliance, 5-3 Gus HERRERA gherrera@beaconmedianews.com
The Pasadena City Council’s most recent meeting got off to late start and had an even later finish, as discussions around the dais lasted past midnight.
PASADENA AND GLENDALE POLICE DETECTIVES ARREST ‘OFFICE CREEPER’ SUSPECT
There were two main events on the agenda: the first regarded the potential establishment of a park in the underserved Playhouse District; the second dealt with the city’s response to
On Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2017, Pasadena Police Detectives, along with a Glendale Police Detective and State Parole Agents arrested a man who is allegedly the "Office Creeper" in El Monte, CA. Parolee Anthony Fierro, a career
SEE COUNCIL PAGE 12
SEE CREEPER PAGE 13
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‘Office
Creeper’
Suspect.
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