sent to the Chula Vista City Council regarding their new Privacy Protection and Technology Advisory
Jeanne Brown | Published on 7/12/2023
The League of Women Voters of San Diego believes that cities and counties should enact privacy and technology-use ordinances to protect privacy and other civil liberties. The proposed ordinances should include requirements for audits of specified policy and data in an annual surveillance report that is publicly available. Ordinances should also include evidence of crime-prevention effectiveness, civil rights impact, fiscal costs, and source of funding for surveillance technology. In order for the commission to be able to measure that effectiveness, more data needs to be collected on a regular basis and the commission would need to meet regularly and often, particularly at the beginning when they have so many technologies that have not been thoroughly evaluated.