Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance Meeting

This document summarizes a meeting of the Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance Working Group in the City of Syracuse. The meeting covers agenda items such as guest speakers, review of past decisions, review of current decisions, guest speaker presentation by Lee W. McKnight, and review of Service Level Agreements. The group discusses various surveillance technologies and their implications, including aerial UAS, street cameras, fleet management technology, and community asset tracking. Decision-making processes, public comments, and recommendations to the Mayor are also reviewed.

• Surveillance Technology
• Data Governance
• City of Syracuse
• Policy
• Meeting

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1. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Surveillance Technology Working Group Meeting #15 11.30.2021 1 CITY OF SYRACUSE

2. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Agenda Guest Speaker - Lee McKnight Samsara - Procurement findings Flock Safety - Update Sentiment Analysis - Update Questions 2 CITY OF SYRACUSE

3. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Review Past 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 pilot, documentation provided COPS: Cameras strategically placed around the city to aid in policing Exempted 3 CITY OF SYRACUSE

4. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Review Current Decisions Flock Safety: Street cameras that capture vehicle plates. Assessed in previous session Press release schedule for 14 day public comment Samsara: Fleet management technology Collected data on procurement, making determination on next steps today 4 CITY OF SYRACUSE

5. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Guest Speaker Lee W. McKnight Associate Professor in the iSchool Syracuse University, F Faculty Advisor to the Worldwide Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Club (WiTec) Affiliate of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSTC). Lee s research interests span policy, economic, business and technical innovation in regional and global information economies. The role of information and communication technology innovation in shaping the global political and market virtual environments is of strong interest. 5

6. 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. 6 CITY OF SYRACUSE

7. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Samsara Samsara Procurement RFP was published on 12/10/2020 and closed the RFP on 02/02/2021 Executive Order started on 12/01/2020 - this means Samsara would not be grandfathered in. Decision We determined last time we met that this technology is NOT exempt. Next Steps Initiate public comment period. 7

8. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Flock Safety Update We are finalizing the Press Release edits and expect to launch the public comment period this week. 8

9. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Sentiment Analysis Update Two folks from LeMoyne will be joining us over the next few working group meetings to listen and learn about our internal process. We will be welcoming Professor Yue Han and Graduate student Daniel Brown. 9

10. Surveillance Technology Policy and Data Governance 2021 Questions ? 10 CITY OF SYRACUSE