The city had given itself a year to evaluate the continued use of its many surveillance technologies or face shutting down a host of tools; on Tuesday, City Council will consider extending that end date by three years
It looks like San Diego will get more time to review its many surveillance tools — more than 300, as of last count — and just in time. In a few weeks,On Tuesday, the City Council is expected to consider several amendments to its surveillance ordinance, including a deadline extension of three years.
Under the law, city departments are required to disclose their surveillance technologies — everything from drones to car trackers to fingerprint scanners — and compile reports outlining how those tools are used and their. That information would then make its way to the newly created Privacy Advisory Board — a volunteer panel charged with vetting the city’s technologies — and then to the City Council, which would decide whether a tool should stay in use.
City officials said in a statement that the proposed changes will allow more time for the city’s many surveillance technologies to move through the process without risking contracts expiring or posing challenges to daily operations. In a statement released after the initial amendments were posted to the city’s website, the coalition said that “San Diegans must be assured that existing technology will be either approved or shut down in a reasonable period of time.”
Once that has been accomplished, Anyanetu said, the board could focus on the most important tools — like the Police Department’s— which would be reviewed over a three-year period. Thereafter, each city department would submit one proposal per month, until the inventory is exhausted.
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