Public comment urges oversight for ALPR, flags data gaps in crisis-response reporting
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Summary
A public commenter asked for civilian oversight of ALPR retention and warned of potential AI profiling, questioned whether the crisis-response dashboard captures unhoused people without phones, and commended the fire department while urging sensitivity to housing and pets.
During the public-comment period, Jamie Lopez (identified as formerly with the coalition formerly homeless) urged stronger civilian oversight for automated license-plate readers, expressed concern that ALPR text outputs could be combined with analytic tools to create profiles, and warned that vendors and vendors' testing of facial-recognition features in other jurisdictions merit local attention.
Lopez also criticized the crisis-response dashboard as focused on response activity rather than proactive engagement and said sampling methods risk undercounting unhoused people who lack phones and therefore do not generate dispatch records. He praised the fire-department blood-product presentation and expressed concern about the impact of animal-seizure policies on people who may lose pets when housing is unavailable.
The committee recorded the comments; APD and mayor's office staff had already addressed several technical points in their presentations and acknowledged some data and oversight follow-ups would be needed.
