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Urbana council continues surveillance-technology ordinance review; schedules Placer AI and police presentations
Summary
Councilors asked for more departmental briefings and set a timeline for presentations on Placer AI (Jan. 19) and the police department (Jan. 26), while debating whether the ordinance should be citywide or limited to police uses.
The Urbana Committee of the Whole continued Jan. 6 its months-long review of a surveillance-technology ordinance, with council members requesting more detail about specific technologies and scheduling staff presentations before final action.
A staff member said a small email straw poll of council members showed three respondents favoring a citywide ordinance and one favoring a police-only approach. Members discussed whether to require…
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