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The Long Beach City Council is expected to change the pay structure for most of its city commissioners to remove barriers that advocates say blocked some low-income and undocumented resents from participating in making city policy. ....
City commissioners and city management are at odds over what Long Beach should do about facial recognition technology, with two advisory bodies saying it should be paused or banned and city management saying the city is already taking steps to safeguard residents’ privacy. ....
“While some populations are being harmed by this technology at higher rates than others, all residents lose when government deploys emerging technology in an indiscriminate and secretive manner,” states a January 2022 white paper on facial recognition tech that sums up the thinking of the commission. ....
A city commission questioned Long Beach police on Wednesday about their use of facial recognition technology, and some commissioners voiced their support for banning or suspending its use, at least until there are well-defined rules about when and how it should be used. - ADVERTISEMENT - “Those will build trust, but until that trust is built up, everything is going to be suspect,” said Technology and Innovation Commissioner David W. Ferrell. The commission does not have any direct power to regulate the police department’s use of facial recognition software, but it’s in the beginning stages of crafting a recommendation about how and when the city should allow its use. ....