So I am guessing this was something else that was never discussed in front of the public at a City Council meeting so that people could provide testimony, and weigh in on being spied upon. If Bieter has been getting enough threats to resort to this unacceptable step – then that is another sign he is long past his shelf date, and City policies while he has been Mayor have earned him a boatload of enemies.

Perhaps a large reward should be offered to anyone providing to the Guardian a certified copy of any and all blacklists kept by the elected or appointed City government, and or employees.

Any such list should be public, it should be administered fairly and appropriately by the police department, and no person should be on such a list unless deemed appropriate by court of law.

I suspect being on one of the City’s blacklist inappropriately is going to be worth a lot of money for the victims and their lawyers. Class action if it’s a big enough list. ACLU where are you?

Also…Does the city have the right to take rights from others it deems deplorable? I was under the impression that no one could be banned from a city or state government building. If the city bans them, where will they go to make their voices heard, and who will they address? Doesnt a ban, then, violate the rights of an individual?

This is the same Bieter regime and complicit City Council (through sitting back and enabling the Mayor’s increasingly Third World Dictator-style actions) that hired Brandwatch to spy on the public on social media. I believe the Guardian published a piece about Brandwatch?

And as we learned earlier this year, the City hired Strategies 360 to write propaganda pieces (like Op-Eds) cheering on basing F-35 noise monster War Planes in Boise.

This is wrong in so many ways — civil liberties, costs — the City itself admits there is no specific issue it is trying to address.

And the hits keep coming!! We need to wake up enough Boiseans before it is too late. It doesn’t take a mathematician to see how close we are to a looming Mayoral election. Throughout his lengthy tenure, the Mayor has taken care of his shortcomings and key support. He is not the politician ex-councilman Alan Shealy once joked about. Two well-paid aides now serve as a spokesman and a ‘confidential advisor’. Allies hold key positions in local as well as State government. I fear the once wonderful city we enjoyed just a few short years ago has only begun the reinvention of itself under the current spendthrift leadership.

Looks like Bieter is trying to protect himself from the citizens of Boise who don’t agree with his politics.

Yes, BIG Brother (or something).
And the biggest one is in Washington DC.
from 2018: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-tests-facial-recognition-surveillance-system-outside-white-house-n943536

This is happening at every level of government for enhanced security. It already is, or will be soon, at schools, e.g. at the main entry – if the machine doesn’t recognize the student/person – alert!

All a bunch of Orwellian paranoia until it works as intended and saves lives, right?

The bigger question is, “Why are there such restraining orders protecting city employees?”… oh yea, too many nut jobs walking around in the world and not enough effort to help people with mental illnesses.

Ironic that liberal San Francisco is banning the use of it by the city and law enforcement.

Been to the airport lately? We’ve all be feeding our facial identities into Facebook the DMV, Walmart cameras, and TSA for several years. Our DNA with each blood draw. Every phone call, text, internet packet etc. on earth is recorded in a NSA database. Voice identity in seconds. Fingerprints into the smartphone. Driving habits into the car’s OnStar tracker. And so on and so on. It is impossible to be off the grid.

As others have eluded, this City Hall system is going to be used for detecting more that just the angry ex. They can buy a huge database that will ID everyone scanned. Is it a paranoid administration looking for ways to track perceived adversaries? Let’s not forget the clandestine snooping and tracking they did during the F-35 arguments. The wild-ass stuff written in preceding comments is all plausible and not so wild-ass these days. The ability of the powerful few to abuse their power has never been greater. I really do wonder are there lists of perceived opponents. Is there a clandestine local social credit enforcement system? I want a news reporter with integrity to find out. Somebody honest in media please clear this up before it becomes the accepted norm. I find it disturbing how so many of our academics and politicians speak fondly of China. The technology comes from America. Why does our government want to track us, why do we let them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLnnLyx7nQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqqZEf4LJuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPqKhgh9Mg
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a28210348/pentagon-heartbeat-laser-beams/

Rabula is right. It is reminiscent of Duh Dirk. Aside from that, it’s expensive, unnecessary, silly, and loaded with potential abuse.

Make masks of ‘undesirables’ and wear them into City Hall. Then there would be a ‘no mask’ ordinance created.

Wrong again Forced Air.

ACLU is the ONE national organization doing EXACTLY what you want done.

The ACLU has written model legislation for local governments specifically focused on !!!!banning!!!! facial recognition.

Matt Cagle, an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, was among the leaders of the campaign to ban facial recognition in San Francisco, which began last fall.

Pretty good work for ‘marxists’, eh?
What does that say about you?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-s-facial-recognition-ban-just-beginning-national-battle-n1007186