Advocates pushing for more transparency on how smart streetlights are used scored a major win Tuesday.
From smart streetlights to license-plate readers, some of the City of San Diego's surveillance technology will be the focus of a special public safety committee meeting on Wednesday.
It comes after city leaders voted to push the deadline back three years for reviewing hundreds of surveillance technologies used by various city departments. Drones are among the more than 300 surveillance tools San Diego police use to keep watch over the city. Some of those tools used by law enforcement could have been turned off — temporarily — because a review of how they're used and affect communities would not have been completed by the September deadline.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.The San Diego City Council voted unanimously to extend the deadline to September 2026 to review existing technologies.
“The community needs to demand that if we're going to use this technology, it needs to be used properly, and there should be strong controls over it because we're a big city and there's a lot of people at risk here," explained Seth Hall of
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