Irvine Police — Facial Recognition Records (Volume 1)

TL;DR — 520 pages of disclosed municipal records on facial-recognition procurement and vendor marketing.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. State / municipal public record.

A 520-page records release, opening on a March 2017 vendor email to an Irvine city address: “Achieving Facial Recognition Success with Lower Quality Images.”

This is what surveillance procurement actually looks like from the inside — webinar invitations, vendor pitches, internal forwards — rather than the policy debate about it. The banality is the finding.

⚠️ Catalogued from its opening pages; 520 pages of correspondence have not been read in full.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

520 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.