Q&A
Access to vendor agreements for surveillance technologies
0:40:32
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Council Member Brewer inquires about DOI's access to vendor agreements and contracts for surveillance technologies. Commissioner Strauber confirms that they can request and access these agreements during audits.
- DOI has the ability to request and access vendor agreements during audits
- These agreements can provide information on data access and retention
- Strauber notes that third-party providers may sometimes have access to data generated by particular services or technologies
Gale Brewer
0:40:32
We're gonna keep doing this.
0:40:34
So one way to get at these issues is, of course, contract agreements and conditions with vendors of surveillance technologies.
0:40:43
I know, even me, I get these crazy suggestions from all over the country that the city should buy this technology or that technology.
0:40:50
I just hit delete because I know that's a police department's problem.
0:40:54
But it is complicated.
0:40:55
So my question is, do you have access to these agreements and the vendors and the surveillance technology?
0:41:01
Because that's how you can, in fact, get more information to be in compliance with the post act.
Jocelyn Strauber
0:41:07
I mean, that is something that we can and do request when we do our audits and we do have access to it.
0:41:12
And those agreements can have information that bears on data access and retention, for example, because sometimes, I'm not speaking to any specific technology, but a third party provider may have access to data that a particular service or technology generates.