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Milwaukee residents press Fire and Police Commission to ban facial recognition and demand transparency over chief’s Israel training trip
Summary
At the Feb. 19 Fire and Police Commission meeting, multiple residents urged a permanent ban on facial recognition technology and pressed the board for more oversight and public disclosure about Chief Norman’s training trip to Israel, while family members of Sam Sharp Jr. called for codified use-of-force safeguards they call 'Sam’s laws.'
Residents and community groups used the public-comment period at the Fire and Police Commission’s Feb. 19 meeting to call for tighter controls on police technology and more transparency about the police chief’s out-of-city training.
Connor Grossnickle opened the public-comment docket with concerns about SOP 6-82, the city’s proposed policy on generative artificial intelligence. He asked the commission to add a clear audit cadence and defined disciplinary thresholds so officers know when software-generated material could trigger discipline. “There needs to be a threshold measurement to even permit any software,” Grossnickle said, urging bias ratings and accuracy metrics in any approval process.
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