Civil liberties groups are lauding Oakland leaders for their decision this month to ban predictive policing and biometric surveillance technology, which allegedly do not work and are racially biased.

The new policies, which took effect Jan. 12, make Oakland the first city in the nation to put such bans in place, according to the San Francisco office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. City councilmembers voted unanimously to put the bans in place, according to city records.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.