AN ORDINANCE relating to surveillance technology implementation; authorizing approval of uses and accepting the 2020 surveillance impact report and 2020 executive overview for the Seattle Police Department’s use of Situational Awareness Cameras Without Recording.
Agenda item seven Council Bill 120054 An ordinance relating to surveillance technology implementation authorizing approval of uses and accepting the 2020 Surveillance Impact Report and 2020 Executive Overview for the Seattle Police Department's use of situational awareness cameras without recording. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. Thank you so much again, Claire Pearson. As chair of the committee, you are recognized in order to address this item. Thank you. Colleagues. This is Counselor 1200542 surveillance impact report covering an existing technology called Situational Cameras. Without recording, they do not record. These awareness cameras are used during crisis events, just a hostage situation. And after adopting the amendments, our committee unanimously recommended approval. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Peterson, are there any comments from councilmembers on this item? Thank you. Again, I feel like this is an area where I am relying on reports from the committee and also doing my research with central staff and stakeholders. I really appreciate that there is a central staff memo that's been circulated on these items and would ask for that to potentially be recirculated to the full council, especially as it relates to concerns that are being raised around surveillance of First Amendment rights. You know, for example, in the previous bill, my understanding was that it was not a King County helicopter. And the thermal images do not show that level of detail that was described. I just want to make sure that I fully understand that I was reading that correctly. That and that the verbal report back along with the central staff memo is is shared. That would be very helpful on this for having not been in committee. Mike, I would like to ask either the chair or the sponsor of the amendments, if you might want to just summarize a few of the amendments that you did incorporate as well to help put some sideboards on it for the benefit of full council. That would be really appreciated. Absolutely. Councilor Mosquito Comes Petition. Do you want to lead the way on on your amendment or you feel free to describe mine too, if you like? Actually, my amendments were the ones already approved by the existing previous technologies, and these that's just the equity metrics that are being used to report back to us on those. But I think it's it's more important for me to mention as part of this underlying surveillance ordinance, one of the requirements with all speed technologies, that is that the Office of Inspector General continues to monitor and report on these for us. So it's not done today. It's something we will continue to monitor for the council. And regarding Councilor Herbals amendments which do put their sideboards on the technology, look to Councilor Herbold to describe those which the committee unanimously approved. Or thank you. Again, this is an item that the technology workgroup identified as a priority gap in in the legislation. And it doesn't. The the bill, as it was originally drafted, did not specifically ensure that the purpose in use aligned with the limitations. And so in this case we wanted to make sure that there are policies that prohibit downloading or streaming images. The policy is again address retaining recorded images, but did not include the policies for retaining, downloaded or streaming images. So the this amendment requests that SPG enhance those policies to make sure that those those conditions are included. Any other comments or questions here? Seeing none with a clerk. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. The want? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. As. Musgrave, i. Peterson. I. Council president Pro-Tem Herbold. Yes. Seven in favor. None of those. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Well, the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Moving on to item number eight on the agenda will be read item eight into the record.