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Glendale council debates AI and recording rules in employee handbook, delays final vote
Summary
Council members questioned a proposed technology and AI use policy and an internal recording ban, sparring over employees’ rights to record disciplinary meetings and ownership of AI-created work; staff were asked to draft alternative language and the handbook updates were laid over to the next meeting.
The Glendale Common Council heard extended discussion on proposed employee-handbook updates that would add a formal technology-use section and the city’s first AI use policy, then voted to lay the item over for redrafting.
City Attorney (the city attorney) told the council the updates would regulate employees’ use of computers, networks and communication devices and introduce a new AI use policy to prohibit putting sensitive personally identifiable information into AI systems. “This sort of lays it all out there, the AI use policy,” the city…
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