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Board advances ordinance requiring city departments to post surveillance policies after COIT presentation and amendments
Summary
The Rules Committee recommended an ordinance implementing Administrative Code Chapter 19B requiring departments to publish surveillance‑technology policies and impact reports, after a COIT presentation, questions about automated license‑plate readers and a global amendment to add "and risks" to the ordinance findings.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors— Rules Committee on July 19 recommended an ordinance to require city departments to publish surveillance‑technology policies and impact reports and to adopt an inventory and annual reporting process.
The committee—s presentation centered on work by the Committee on Information Technology (COIT), which posted a citywide surveillance inventory of 168 technologies and proposed a surveillance toolkit to streamline impact assessments. Matthias Jaime, COIT staff, told the committee the toolkit is intended to help departments assess privacy impacts — for instance dignity loss, discriminatory outcomes, economic harms and physical‑safety risks — and to identify mitigation measures such as shorter…
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