Designation of Facial Recognition Technology as Surveillance Technology pursuant to Seattle Surveillance Ordinance, Seattle Municipal Code 14.18.020.
And counseled President Gonzalez. Yes seven a favor and opposed the bill passes and the chair will sign it will the fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item two into the record? Agenda item to file. 314471. Designation Official Facial Recognition Technology Surveillance Technology Pursuant to Seattle Surveillance Ordinance. Seattle Municipal Code 1418 020. Thank you so much. I move to approve Clark Kyle 314479. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve files. 314479. I'm going to hand it over to Councilmember Herbold, who is a co-sponsor of this file item to address the item. Thank you again so much and really appreciate the opportunity to work with Councilmember Peterson on this bill. He is the chair of the committee that has oversight of the surveillance technology related actions. And so and so this is a clerk file to the surveillance ordinance. Really appreciate his leadership. And in helping me work through some of the issues related to our recent Office of Professional Accountability Investigation, where the director concluded that an officer's use of facial recognition technology was not in violation of the city's surveillance ordinance. We received analysis from central staff. The analysis shows that the facial recognition technology is currently within the jurisdiction and purview of the surveillance ordinance, meaning that the use of the technology is currently prohibited unless reviewed and approved as described in that graphic or as described in the in the ordinance itself. But in order to eliminate any confusion in the future, whether facial recognition technology is covered by the surveillance ordinance, council central staff recommended that we use the clerk file as the mechanism for this particular clarification. We've also sort of heard differing opinions from from Chief Diaz in the Seattle Police Department back in November of 2020, when this issue was first brought to public awareness awareness. Chief Diaz wrote that SPD does not use Clearview AI and has no intention of using Clearview AI. And he went on to say, As chief, I'm committed to upholding the tenets of the surveillance ordinance and the civil liberties of our residents. Clearview AI's business product is at odds with those two central priorities. Further on my request again last year, the chief sent out a department wide communication reminding everyone in the same police department about the policy. It made clear that one cannot use personal technology as a means to bypass city policies. And included for the review of the employees what the actual content of the policies were. Certainly the chief publicly indicated that it is a gray area, saying it's not. It is his position. That surveillance ordinance, as presently codified, covers the use of facial recognition software. And again, the clerk file before the council today will ensure that in the future the surveillance ordinance is very clear that it does include the use of facial recognition technology and will be subject to the review process outlined in the ordinance . Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Herbals. Any additional comments on the quick file? Councilmember Peterson, please. Thank you. Council president? Yes. As council member, Herbold said, approving this quickfire would designate facial recognition technology as surveillance technologies, who would then be subject to the thorough review and approval process as prescribed by Seattle's strong surveillance ordinance. The there's actually a SNC section 14.1 8.0204 that states that council may at any time designate that a technology is or is not surveillance technology, and it actually asks for a clerk trial to do that. So thanks to the foresight of the authors of the surveillance ordinance for giving us this option to do this today, and we encourage you to adopt this court file. Thank you. Thank you so much. PETERSON Any additional comments on the Clarke file? I'm not seeing any other hands raised. Well, the clerk please call the role on the approval of the cork file. Purple's. It's. CLARENCE Hi. Lewis Yes. PETERSON Yes. So what? Yes. Strauss Yes. And Council President Gonzalez. Yes. Seven in favor, nine opposed the motion carries and the clerk file is approved. Will the clerk please read item three into the record? Agenda Item three quick file 314456. Sold Unit Lot Subdivision Application by Solar Real Estate six LLC to subdivide three parcels into eight parcels of land and one of