The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the police department’s surveillance technology policy, allowing SFPD to use a tracking device on cars during pursuits. 

“We should give law enforcement tools that can help prevent dangerous pursuits and improve apprehension of serious offenders, but only with clear restrictions, accountability and public oversight based on the policy before us,” said Supervisor Alan Wong at Tuesday’s meeting. “I believe those safeguards are in place.”

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.