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=== "Cognitech, Inc. has announced the recent donation of it's forensic video enhancement Tri-Suite 11 software system to the Oakland Police Department, at the request of the Oakland Law Enforcement, and in the interest of the City of Oakland, CA, community at large with the purpose of forensically enhancing and analyzing video footage from the Occupy Oakland protests in order to find the forensic truth in the recorded incidents/events footage. ===

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/31/prweb9156548.DTL#ixzz1mKb7YYs1"
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**Ann Nomura**
=== //Here’s the history:. Oakland has long had a problem with “pay to play “machine politics, which starved the poorer neighborhoods and citizens of services and representation. Paul Rockwell wrote an insightful if not prophetic piece about the chamber and its PAC in 2006. The city of Oakland attempted to limit lobbyist control over city politics with a Campaign Reform Act in 2000, the object being to create freer elections. The chamber agreed to the reform and its influence, through OakPAC, was curtailed.// === === //So between 2000 and 2006 Oakland’s people had more influence over local elections. Ron Dellums became mayor and in 2006 there was a contested race for a Council seat where the OakPAC candidate, Pat Kerninghan, was in a tight race against Aimee Allison. The chamber, unhappy with the possibility of losing a Council seat, threatened legal action against Oakland’s Campaign Reform Act and a judge deemed Oakland’s Campaign Reform act unconstitutional, saying it violated the groups’ freedom of speech.// === === //The city’s Campaign Reform Ordinance was revoked and OakPAC was once again free to pour unlimited funds into political campaigns. Its candidate won and the city of Oakland paid a $75,000 settlement to OakPAC. So Oakland taxpayers paid OakPAC, who in turn bought politicians, who then promoted the chamber’s position, which was then researched and reported on by the chamber’s members. This is how Oakland has come so quickly and completely to support the chamber’s position on the Occupy protests.// ===