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Committee keeps three surveillance-technology impact reports in committee, approves drone use report

Somerville City Legislative Matters Committee · December 2, 2025
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Councilors praised police cooperation on surveillance-technology impact reports but asked for clearer data-retention and legal-sharing standards; they kept ball-camera, thermal/monocular, and under-door-camera STRs in committee for revision and recommended approval of the high-school drone STR.

The committee reviewed four surveillance-technology impact reports submitted by the administration: mini ball cameras, thermal-imaging/monocular systems, under-door cameras, and an unmanned aircraft system (drone) use at the high school. Councilor Ewen Kampen said the STRs appear modest in privacy risk compared with larger systems, but Councilor Davis…

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