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Senate approves bill allowing AI-enabled cameras for wildfire detection after funding and privacy debate
Summary
The Senate passed SB 11, a bill authorizing use of artificial-intelligence–enabled detection components in wildfire mitigation. Lawmakers debated funding, procurement and privacy provisions and rejected amendments that would have narrowed future state obligations or required minimum gifts/grants thresholds.
Senate Bill 11, which authorizes use of artificial intelligence–enabled detection components for wildfire detection and mitigation, passed the Senate after committee reports and floor amendment votes.
Sponsor Senator Doherty framed the bill as a tool to introduce technology to wildfire detection and asked for an I vote. "This bill has a lot to do with cameras and wildfire management," Senator Simpson told colleagues, speaking in support. The bill directs the Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) to use allowable technologies, including camera-based detection with AI, to help identify fires earlier.
Privacy and procurement safeguards: The Transportation and Energy Committee adopted amendments and the floor considered a packet of technical and policy…
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