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Resident urges pause and community oversight of PlaceAI use by Downtown Inc. and York County Economic Alliance
3589736 · May 7, 2025
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Summary
A resident told council that Placer AI's location analytics use by downtown nonprofits could reinforce displacement and urged the city to pause use, require reporting and create a community oversight committee.
During public comment at the May 6 York City Council meeting, resident and community advocate Brian Gooden urged the council to pause the use of the location-analytics tool PlaceAI by Downtown Inc. and the York County Economic Alliance until the city establishes equity and privacy safeguards.
Gooden said PlaceAI, a commercial location-analytics platform, uses anonymized…
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