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Urbana committee advances work on policing-surveillance ordinance; major debates remain on scope, notice and data use
Summary
Committee discussed proposed policing-surveillance rules (version 7/7.1), debating whether the ordinance should cover only police or all city departments, the length of public-notice and comment periods, vendor NDAs and a proposed prohibition on selling surveillance data; committee took straw polls and identified sections for staff and attorneys to clarify.
The Committee of the Whole spent its remaining meeting time working through draft language for an ordinance establishing approval, reporting and use-policy requirements for policing surveillance technology (drafts labeled version 7 and 7.1).
Council members Mary Alice and James presented consolidated edits intended to simplify definitions, remove duplicative "database" language and incorporate model language from Oak Park where appropriate. The committee’s discussion repeatedly focused on three policy questions: (1) should the ordinance apply only to the police department or to all city departments that use…
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