August 2015 Report of the Police Intelligence Audit Pursuant to Ordinance  108333 (Seattle Municipal Code 14.12).
Agenda items 14, 15 and 16 Clerk File 31432 8th August 2015 Report of the Police Intelligence Audit Pursuant to Ordinance 108333 Seattle Municipal Code 14.12 and Clerk filed 314329 Chief of Police Audit Report of Select Files obtained through the Police Department's membership in the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit and the Western States Information Network maintained exclusive for confidential information dated October 5th, 2015, in accordance with Ordinance 108333 and a Code 14.12 and Clerk file 314335. Response of the Police Chief to the August 2015 Report of the Intelligence Audit filed pursuant to Ordinance 108333 Seattle Missile Code 14.12. The committee recommends for council file the clerk files. Thank you, Councilmember Harrell. Thank you very much. So these three files are basically the filing of a report that we do every year that pertains to how the city handles and treats information when gathered by our police departments and used or archived when looking at the protests, doing their job, etc.. The city of Seattle was the first city in the United States to actually prohibit by law the collection and maintenance of maintenance of information about the political, religious or social views or constitutionally protected activity of subjects who are neither involved in criminal activity or suspected of involvement. And how we treat this information is known as the Seattle Police Intelligence Ordinance. And through an audit process and an inspection process, we ensure the public that we're not using this information to the detriment of those that we collect it from. And thank you for testimony in this regard. In this particular in these particular files. The chief of police and the police intelligence auditor, Professor Browner, they physically examined the case files that are held by the criminal intelligence unit to ensure that they are in compliance with our ordinance. The this process certifies that the files reviewed showed no evidence of a pattern or practice or incident involving the collection of information in a manner prohibited by this ordinance. The committee did recommend the filing of these documents. In closing, I would also suggest that in when this police intelligence audience was first drafted back in the seventies, certainly the Internet and the kind of digital capabilities were not in place. And so part of the workplan next year in this particular audience will be to look at whether we need to change the skill set of the auditor to see how we're using photographs, how we're using any other form of digital or. Travel services, anything that we are keeping, whether we have the right ability, a good ability, a strong ability to, to, uh, to, to audit those functions of the police. And given that we actually given that theory, we actually made some adjustments in the budget to look at that particular position. So long winded way of saying the scope of that position will change next year, as will the procedure by which we verify sensitive information or political information or religious information about anyone is not used to the detriment of that person as the police do their job. The committee recommends passage of this filing of these three files. Thank you. Those in favor of placing clerk filed 314328 clerk filed 314329 and clerk file 314335 on file vote i. I oppose but no. Those three files are placed on file. The report of the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee. Please read Item 17. The Report of the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 17 Council Bill 118525 Relating to street and sidewalk use. Addressing low impact development requirements in the City of Seattle's Phase one Municipal Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology.