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Detroit - MI Documenters Team
Note-taking byGabriel Gamlin
Commissioners want to know more about information sharing agreements with other police departments, and whether those departments adhere to Obama's Community Policing initiative, which DPD has signed. DPD presented on facial recognition technology and associated policies.
Commissioners want to know more about information sharing agreements with other police departments, and whether those departments adhere to Obama's Community Policing initiative, which DPD has signed. DPD presented on facial recognition technology and associated policies.
Comm'r Burton: What cities does the City of Detroit have information sharing agreements with? Pressley: We are already in possession of a document with this information. Pressley requests copies be provided next meeting.
Burton; I am concerned about a possible disparity in policies between parties to such an agreement. AC: The various agreements address the use of the data shared.
Pressley and Burton are going around and around a bit. Pressley seems a little fed up with Burton. Basic gist is: Burton: We need info re policies and agreements, the board doesn't have that. Pressley: we do have that, and I'll have it read into the record. And then again.
Comm'r Bernard clarifies that the question is whether the DPD is concerned about making agreements with PDs that may be engaging in unethical behaviors or have unethical policies.
Pressley responds that a larger conversation on this issue can occur at the next meeting when the DPD can be prepared to address the issue, and the Board is in possession of the relevant documents.
Caller is concerned about the disparity in car insurance rates between the City of Detroit and the suburbs, and the continuing problem of racial inequality. The caller is concerned about the data-sharing policies inadvertently allowing other PDs to exacerbate the issues.
The next caller is voicing his concerns about the Board not taking misconduct seriously and says that no amount of Easter egg hunts will make people trust the police if they still feel disrespected and oppressed by them.
Former Comm'r calls in to voice his strong concerns about the lack of action taken against DPD employees who falsify documents. Says in his 30 years working for the city, if he ever falsified a document he would have been instantly terminated.
This caller is also in support of the Ceasefire resolution, and advocates that the Board disinvest from technologies that have been developed by Israel.
The presenter is emphasizing that SNAP (Statewide Network of Agency Photos) photos can only be for Par I crimes and can't be accessed otherwise. No info on how this claim is to be verified.
Comm'r asks how the Gaza ceasefire resolution will affect the use of facial rec tech. Pressley: the resolution addresses surveillance technology and facial rec tech is not used to surveille the public.
Comm'r Burton asks what the DPD would say to those whose civil rights have been wronged by the technology, and to the City, which is dealing with lawsuits regarding the technology? Answer: We have apologized to those who have been wrongly apprehended.
Burton says that DPD misidentifies people with the technology at a higher rate than other cities, and asks how many other cities have stopped using the technology? Answer: I don't know which cities have stopped, if any, and they are so far only aware of 3 persons so misidentiied
Pressley does not have the resolution before him, and therefore can entertain no changes at this time. That being the case, the meeting is adjourned at 5:01pm
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