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Committee declines to send photo-noise monitoring ordinance to public hearing amid privacy and program concerns
Summary
The committee considered a draft ordinance authorizing randomized photo-noise monitoring devices but voted not to send it to public hearing by a 6–1 margin after members raised concerns about surveillance, data sharing and program justification; Nora Nojelski Eitner strongly opposed the measure citing misuse risks of location-based data.
The Norwalk Ordinance Committee on Oct. 21 considered a draft ordinance that would authorize randomized photo-noise monitoring devices around the city to detect motor-vehicle noise above 80 decibels but voted not to send the item to public hearing.
Discussion and objections: Several committee members expressed reservations about privacy and the risk that location-based audio/visual data could be misused. Committee member Nora Nojelski Eitner urged caution and cited…
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