The NYPD is facing the prospect of being held in contempt of court over its ongoing failure to comply with public record requests years after they were filed.
In 2023 and 2024, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, or STOP, a privacy advocacy organization that attempts to shine a light on government's use of mass surveillance, filed 13 public record requests with the NYPD, seeking records concerning everything from the surveillance of protesters, to mobile wiretaps, to the department's relationship with Palantir and the facial recognition company Clearview AI, to the Domain Awareness System, the NYPD's massive network of cameras, sensors, software and databases, touted as one of the largest surveillance network in the world.