2.99.030 City Council Approval Requirement.
1. The City Manager must obtain City Council approval, except in Exigent Circumstances, by placing an item on the Action Calendar at a duly noticed meeting of the City Council prior to any of the following:
a. Seeking, soliciting, or accepting grant funds for the purchase of, or in-kind or other donations of, Surveillance Technology;
b. Acquiring new Surveillance Technology, including but not limited to procuring such technology without the exchange of monies or consideration;
c. Using new Surveillance Technology, or using Surveillance Technology previously approved by the City Council for a purpose, or in a manner not previously approved by the City Council; or
d. Entering into an agreement with a non-City entity to acquire, share or otherwise use Surveillance Technology or the information it provides, or expanding a vendor’s permission to share or otherwise use Surveillance Technology or the information it provides.
2. The City Manager must present a Surveillance Use Policy for each Surveillance Technology to the Police Review Commission, prior to adoption by the City Council. The Police Review Commission shall also be provided with the corresponding Surveillance Acquisition Report that had been presented to council for that Surveillance Technology. No later than 30 days after receiving a Surveillance Use Policy for review, the Police Review Commission must vote to recommend approval of the policy, object to the proposal, recommend modifications, or take no action. Neither opposition to approval of such a policy, nor failure by the Police Review Commission to act, shall prohibit the City Manager from proceeding with its own review and potential adoption.
3. The City Manager must submit for review a Surveillance Acquisition Report and obtain City Council approval of a Surveillance Use Policy prior to engaging in any of the activities described in subsections (1) (a)-(d).
4. Evidence received relating to the investigation of a specific crime that may have been generated from Face Recognition Technology but was not intentionally solicited shall not be a violation of this ordinance.
5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, it shall be a violation of this ordinance for the City Manager or any person acting on the City Manager’s behalf to obtain, retain, request, access, or use: i) any Face Recognition Technology; or ii) any information obtained from Face Recognition Technology, except for personal communication devices as defined by Section 2.99.020 or section 2.99.030(4). The inadvertent or unintentional receipt, access to, or use of any information obtained from Face Recognition Technology shall not be a violation of this subsection provided that the City Manager or any person acting on the City Manager’s behalf does not request or solicit the receipt, access to, or use of such information, and all copies of the information are promptly destroyed upon discovery of the information, and the information is not used for any purpose.
The City Manager shall log the receipt, access to, or use of any such information in its Annual Surveillance Technology Report. The Surveillance Technology Report shall identify measures taken by the City to prevent the further transmission or use of any information inadvertently or unintentionally obtained through the use of Face Recognition Technology; provided, however, that nothing in this Chapter shall limit the ability to use such information in connection with a criminal investigation. (Ord. 7676-NS § 2, 2019: Ord. 7592-NS § 2 (part), 2018)