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Council Member Julie Won urges support for surveillance oversight legislation
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Council Member Julie Won advocates for a package of bills, particularly Intro 480-A, aimed at enhancing transparency and accountability in NYPD's surveillance practices. She emphasizes the importance of clear policies, data sharing tracking, and public oversight in light of recent incidents involving surveillance of students.
- Intro 480-A requires NYPD to publish detailed impact and use policies for each surveillance technology.
- The bill package includes Intro 168-A and Intro 233-A, providing additional oversight measures.
- Won acknowledges collaboration with NYPD and advocacy groups in developing the legislation.
Julie Won
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Colleagues, I urge you to vote in favor of intro four eighty, part of a critical package of bills that builds on the original public oversight of tech surveillance technology or post act to ensure that the NYPD surveillance practices are transparent and accountable to the public.
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Intro four eighty closes key caps in the original post act by requiring NYPD to publish clear, separate impact and use policies for each surveillance technology the agency uses.
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These policies will now include essential details about how each tool functions, who has access to the data, and what safety risks or civil rights impacts may exist.
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Intro four eighty also ensures how NYPD tracks how and when surveillance data is shared externally with other government agencies on the local, state, and federal level.
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In a time like in a time like now where Ranjani Srinbansan, Mohammad Khalil, and Yunza Chung, these are all students that were surveilled and detained even though they were they were on student visas or were green card permanent residents.
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This is a time where we must have transparency into how surveillance technology is being used by our government and what data tracking ourselves are being shared with what different levels of government such as ICE and homeland security.
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Intro four eighty is just one part of the solution.
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In this bill package, Intro 168 from Majority Leader Fredrias gives the other department more oversight as well as Intro two thirty three from Council Member Hudson.
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So together this package creates additional oversight on surveillance technologies used by NYPD to ensure transparency and public accountability.
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We work closely with the NYPD and the advocates to arrive at the right language that we were comfortable with to achieve these goals.
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I want to give a special shout out to my brother David Siffert from Stop Spying and Ivy Dyson from the Brennan Center who worked tirelessly with our office to help this Intro four eighty to get to this point.
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Let's pass Intro four eighty and its companion bills and make meaningful steps towards a modern and responsible surveillance oversight in New York City.
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Additionally, I would like to highlight eleven
Adrienne E. Adams
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fourteen, which
Julie Won
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is a DOT bill that we also should push so to to have transparency in our capital projects.
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Thank you.