AN ORDINANCE relating to surveillance technology implementation; authorizing approval of uses and accepting surveillance impact reports for Seattle City Light’s use of Current Diversion Technologies.
The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item five into the record? Agenda Item five Council Bill 120002 Relating to surveillance technology implementation authorizing approval of uses and accepting surveillance impact reports or city lights. Use of current diversion technologies. The committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Councilmember Peterson, you are the chair of this committee, and I'm going to hand it back over. To you to. Give us this report. Thank you. Council president and colleagues, bear with me. Some of these remarks will sound very similar to what I said at council briefing, but for the viewing public, I wanted to set the table again for this. The surveillance ordinance adopted in 2017 and refined in 2018 created for Seattle, a strong process to review technology that I'll use to increase the efficiency of government operations and services could have surveillance capabilities. And thank you to the council, President Gonzales and others who crafted the surveillance ordinance. It puts in place a thorough review process that requires the departments using the technology to justify and provide policies for use of the technology with a focus on protecting privacy and civil liberties. This is followed up with a review by a volunteer surveillance working group and by our Information Technology Department. Our committee received an overview of the Surveillance Technology Impact Report approval process back in January, and three ordinances were put forward for nine of the 26 existing technologies back on February 22nd on the introduction referral calendar. We heard from all the relevant city departments and central staff at our committee on both March 3rd and March 17. I want to thank the staff from the departments using this technology, the staff from our information technology department, the volunteers on this surveillance working group, our central staff analyst Lisa Kay, and my legislative aide to provide for their work on these group to existing technologies. The committee unanimously recommended the impact reports for both Seattle City Light and the Seattle Fire Department Technologies. And these are the two bills before us this afternoon Kalispell 120002 of which is for City Light and 1200083 the next item for the fire department. As I mentioned this morning, during our morning briefing, Councilmember Herbold published a friendly amendment on today's agenda to have the fire department explore the feasibility of an additional computer security feature based on the fire department's responses during our committee. And that's an amendment to the next bill. But this bill before us right now is just for City Light to improve their existing technologies. I'm happy to answer questions. Thank you, Councilmember Peterson. And this bill, of course, is just related to Seattle City, LA. And does not have any amendments being proposed to it. And I'm happy to hear any comments or questions from any of our colleagues. Hearing none. Will the court please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Morales Yes, macheda I. Peterson All right. So what? Yes. Strauss Yes. HERBOLD Yes. Suarez, I. Lewis. Yes President Gonzalez high nine in favor nine opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Okay. Item six Will the clerk please read item six into the record? Agenda item 6120003 Relating to surveillance technology implementation, optimizing approval of uses and accepting the Surveillance Impact Report for the Seattle Fire Department's Use of