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Council member urges AI and public-records policy after citing high PRA volume
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Committee member Park urged the Governance and Ethics Committee to develop city guidance on use of generative AI and how Public Records Act (PRA) requests intersect with AI training; staff said an internal working group is preparing AI guidance and staff will review PRA implications.
Council Member Park urged the Governance and Ethics Committee to create clear city guidance on generative artificial intelligence and its interaction with public-records requests, citing frequent PRA requests and concerns that email or other communications could be used to train AI without consent.
Park noted a recent milestone: he told the committee he had received his 200th Public Records Act request in a little over four years and estimated staff costs for complying with repeated PRA requests. He said that…
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