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Board to agendize generative AI review; commenter urges ban on facial recognition as VPD explains audit tools
Summary
The Vallejo board voted to agendize a review of generative AI and AI-enabled features for future meetings. Public commenter Jose Carrizales urged opposition to facial recognition citing wrongful arrests and bias, while Captain Catherine Bautista of the Vallejo Police Department said Flock supplied audit-capability materials but the department has not yet run audits.
The Surveillance Advisory Board voted to place a review of generative AI and AI-enabled analytical tools on a future meeting agenda, asking staff and the audit ad hoc committee to examine whether software upgrades that add AI capabilities constitute material changes requiring board review.
Board member (speaker 4) introduced Item B, saying generative AI is increasingly embedded in surveillance-related products and asking whether such feature upgrades should trigger board oversight. A motion to agendize Item B for the next meeting passed on a roll-call vote.
During Item C and community forum, public commenter Jose Carrizales addressed the board and strongly opposed the use of facial…
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