Q&A
OTI's role in standardizing Local Law 35 responses
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Council Member Gutiérrez and Alex Foard discuss OTI's role in ensuring consistent and standardized agency responses to Local Law 35, which requires reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies.
- OTI is actively working with agencies to ensure their responses meet the standard required by Local Law 35
- This process is ongoing and has been in place since the law's implementation
- There may be agency-specific distinctions or differences in reporting due to contractual or other obligations
- OTI aims to ensure that what Local Law 35 requires is being reported consistently across agencies
- The most recent reporting was in 2023, with the 2024 reporting currently underway
Alex Foard
1:08:50
Yeah.
1:08:51
Just to respond to that, but certainly one of the things back to OTI's role and something like local law 35 is in fact to make sure that over time, agency responses to local law 35 are all sort of meeting the the standard that we think needs to have.
1:09:04
So we are working with agencies actively.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:09:06
Do you have a good time line for that?
Alex Foard
1:09:08
We've been doing it.
1:09:09
So we already do work with agencies to make sure that their their response responses are are meeting the the the need of local law 35.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:09:17
Okay.
Alex Foard
1:09:18
But back to the question on risk assessments, we, again, wanna make sure that what we're putting on paper is responsive to the particular moment in time.
1:09:28
Some agencies come and talk to age to OTI for advisory work early in a process, and it doesn't mean that, you know, something is actually going to to fully pan out.
1:09:36
And so we don't wanna be jumping the gun and suggesting that there's written assessments that are are are publishable at this time.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:09:45
Thank you.
1:09:47
I think just on and I'll I I have some questions about local law 35.
1:09:53
And just correct me if I'm wrong, was the most recent reporting, the one in 2023?
Alex Foard
1:09:58
Yes.
1:09:59
2024 is underway now.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:10:00
Okay.
1:10:01
I don't know.
1:10:02
I don't I don't I don't think every agency response has, like, a standard I mean, some like, DOI.
1:10:11
I think it's DOI or maybe PD, one of them.
1:10:14
The vendor is no answer.
1:10:16
It's NA.
1:10:16
I don't even know what that means.
1:10:17
Right?
1:10:17
As opposed to some of the other agencies that have some of the other agencies also will tell you in the documents that you published, until when their contract is good until in some.
1:10:28
It's just a sentence.
1:10:29
I don't I don't know if it's like the standard.
1:10:31
I don't know.
1:10:32
That's why I'm asking if there's more of a role TI is going to play to ensure that it is the same information for every single agency that's Yeah.
Daniel Schwarz
1:10:39
Published Well,
Alex Foard
1:10:40
we certainly we are working on that and certainly do work with agencies.
1:10:43
There are obviously from agency to agency particular instances where they may have a contract or some other obligation that may prevent them from answering in a specific way or in the same way that another agency does.
1:10:55
So that some of that could be the result of agency to agency distinctions or differences.
1:11:00
But in general, we do work with agencies to make sure that what local law 35 requires is being reported.
