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Urbana council weighs competing surveillance‑ordinance drafts; police urge flexibility for exigent circumstances
Summary
Councilors reviewed multiple drafts of a proposed surveillance ordinance — a city attorney rewrite, a police-recommended governance version, and the prior draft — and asked police for definitions and non‑examples; the police chief warned that officers need flexibility in exigent emergencies.
Urbana councilors spent the late portion of the Committee of the Whole meeting discussing competing approaches to a proposed municipal surveillance ordinance and asked staff for clarifications before returning the matter for a future vote.
The city attorney circulated an underlined rewrite that focuses on internal procedure and prohibitions against acquiring or using unauthorized surveillance data. The Urbana Police Department offered a separate…
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