Keith McCormick
5:39 - 6:45
“This adds a layer of adding the charter amendment so that these are further added to the charter, can't be changed by just a future body or future mayor, police chief. It adds in the requirement for a warrant being required to track a person over time from the surveillance data. It prohibits the city from joining outside surveillance networks or purchasing bulk data.”
- Speaker
- Keith McCormick
- Timestamp
- 5:39 – 6:45
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 14, 2026
From the transcript
This adds a layer of adding the charter amendment so that these are further added to the charter, can't be changed by just a future body or future mayor, police chief. It adds in the requirement for a warrant being required to track a person over time from the surveillance data. It prohibits the city from joining outside surveillance networks or purchasing bulk data. It also adds in the previous biometrics that I believe Member Voland was a part of that, uh, code change in 2023, facial recognition, adding that into charter as well, along with other biometrics that can be collected at a distance, meaning like gait tracking, lip reading, voice, but does not touch like, I guess, close proximity biometric data like fingerprints or DNA being collected from a person as police typically do during admits into custody.
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