
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance in City of Syracuse 2021
Explore the latest updates from the Surveillance Technology Working Group Meeting in City of Syracuse. The agenda covers the review of decisions on technologies like Fotokite, Vacant Lot Monitoring, and Community Asset Tracker. Follow the progress on technology exemptions, public comment periods, and recommendations made by the group.
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Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Surveillance Technology Working Group Meeting #10 9.21.2021 1 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Agenda Where We Are Review New requests Audit Sentiment analysis opportunity - Martha Changing the meeting time Questions 2 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Review Decisions Fotokite: Aerial UAS allowing for different perspectives during crisis response. Not exempt, will go through the process. Press Release out, done with public comment period Public comments received, received comments from SPD Recommendation sent to the Mayor Vacant Lot Monitoring: Sensor that detect changes in a scene to monitor lots for dumping. Not exempt, will go through the process. Press Release out, done with public comment period Public comments received, waiting for updated data from the requesting department Community Asset Tracker: Camera with machine learning algorithm to identify objects within the city. Assessed last week, documentation provided COPS: Cameras strategically placed around the city to aid in policing Exempted 3 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Review SLAs 2 - 6 Weeks (10 - 30 Business Days) Every 2 Weeks (10 Business Days) 2 Weeks 2 Weeks (10 Business Days) (10 Business Days) Initial submission to determination of surveillance Short duration meeting to vote on technology exemptions Public comment period: Issuance of press release Council meeting Submission of finalized form (by dept.) to time of recommendation. Group will individually research; departments will get follow-up questions; group to vote yes/no; and submit recommendation. (*) For now public input will be received via a Google Form and in the future will be on the new website. 4 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Recommendation Vote FotoKite Yes Votes: Chief Cecile Ken Stewart Michelle Ocesa Patrick Kelsey Mark Neha Jen Timothy Gleeson Martha Nico No Votes: 5 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 New Requests No new requests for reviewing technologies. 6
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Audit Technology Audit Still missing: List from the fire department List from Digital Services SPD: Body Cameras Cops Cameras (these are the street cameras) Radar Detectors Speeds Signs Shotspotter Temporary Cameras (aka Trail Cams) Drones 7 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Audit Technology Audit Smart City pilot technologies: Vacant lot monitoring notifications/alerts only. No images relayed, all images processed at the pole and erased. Road temperature sensing for ice detection Street flooding detection Creek level monitoring Vacant house smoke and temperature detection Vacant house motion sensors notifications/alerts only Weather/AQ sensors air temperature, dew point, relative humidity, CO, NO2, O3, PM10, PM2.5 Trash can fullness sensors 8 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Audit Technology Audit What information do we want to collect in this audit? (From Meeting #5) Length of time application is expected to be in use Name of application Owning department Where in the city technology is deployed Who uses the application and accesses the data Cloud vs On Prem Security protocols New suggestions: # of instances of the technology Volume, size and type (structured; unstructured; image; video; sound) 9 CITY OF SYRACUSE Any others we should add?
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Sentiment Analysis Sentiment Analysis Opportunity Martha 10 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Changing meeting time Should we set a new time for the new semester? https://doodle.com/poll/e7uzcq77qc9acbsm?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link 11 CITY OF SYRACUSE
Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Questions ? 12 CITY OF SYRACUSE