Barry E. Friedman

They were operating in a space that was fraught and where they got criticized a lot, and thought it would be good to have an independent outside body that, uh, would guide them.

This is Barry Friedman.

He's a law professor at New York University and the director of their policing project.

And we were a little skeptical of it, frankly, but we agreed to listen, and I think over the period of time in which the ethics board was operating and operating well, everybody felt that good work was being done.

So after a year of study, the ethics board decided to put it to a vote.

It was easily our most fraught meeting ever.

Barry Friedman was in the room.

And I think it was fraught in part because all of us understood the compelling use case.

At the same time, which is really hard to facilitate and do.

I used to work at the policing project out of NYU School of Law under Barry Friedman.

And I think he's done an extraordinary job of having conversations that are oriented toward responsible technology use, where it's using the Constitution appropriately as a floor, where it's appropriately contemplating, you know, the very serious concerns that the public has about that use, while also understanding there is a legitimate public safety rationale for a lot of what's out there.

And if it's used appropriately, it can dramatically improve public safety.

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Barry Friedman, a professor at the New York University School of Law and the director of the Policing Project, said he is not surprised conservatives are realizing the perils of the technology.

Quoting Friedman, I can't imagine what would be a greater affront to conservatives than the government spying on multitudes of blameless people, Mr. Friedman said.

And I'll abbreviate that one there.

Although the Supreme Court's power to overrule Congress is now broadly accepted, it was bitterly contested for more than a century.

Scholars have long known this, and Bowie and Renan's book follows the tracks of important works like Larry D. Kramer's The People Themselves, published in 2004, Keith E. Whittington's Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy, 2007, and Barry Friedman's The Will of the People from 2009.

What Bowie and Rennan add is that the loudest protests against horizontal review historically came from abolitionists, labor organizers, suffragists, and civil rights activists.

As those critics noted, the Constitution doesn't expressly authorize the court to overturn acts of Congress.

How should new technologies be evaluated and overseen? What transparency and accountability measures make sense? And what can San Francisco experience teach other cities considering similar approaches? Our speakers are Chief Derek Liu, San Francisco Police Department.

Barry Friedman, Professor of NYU Law, Founding Director of Policing Projects, and Marissa Rodriguez, the CEO of Union Square Alliances.

The moderator is Megan Cassidy of the San Francisco Chronicle.

I'll now turn the program to our moderator.