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City attorney details proposed surveillance ordinance reopening rules, data limits
Summary
City attorney Matt Roeschle walked council members through a discussion draft of a surveillance-technology ordinance (v8.1), proposing 12-month and material-change reopeners, limits on nondisclosure agreements, prohibition on selling city-held surveillance data, and definitions covering private remote-access cameras.
City Attorney Matt Roeschle presented a discussion draft of revisions to Urbana’s proposed surveillance-technology ordinance at the Committee of the Whole on March 16, laying out procedures for when the council could reopen prior approvals and clarifying limits on data sharing and nondisclosure agreements.
Roeschle said the draft sets two pathways for reconsidering an approved or denied technology: after 12 months (by request of one council member with a second or by the mayor) requiring a majority vote to reopen, or earlier if there is a demonstrable material change. Examples of material changes include evidence of discriminatory impact, a change in law, or a previously unknown functionality of the technology; reopeners for material changes would require a…
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