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Resident warns council against $125K social-media monitoring contract, calls it a "CIA-like" tool
Summary
During public comment Michael Burnett criticized a proposed $125,000 contract for a social-media/AI monitoring service (item 16), saying it would aggregate residents' social media and resemble a "CIA kind of tool," and offered a lower-cost alternative he said he developed. The council acknowledged the comment; the item was on the consent agenda.
Michael Burnett spoke during public comment to criticize a planned city contract (referenced in his remarks as item 16) for a social-media monitoring and engagement service. Burnett said the city was "spending a 125k to get the hot new palantir of basically municipal media," alleging the…
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