Help us build the City’s Surveillance Technologies Policy!
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Save the March 16, 2022 day and join us to start building together the City of Portland surveillance technologies policy. This event will start a series of public meetings (see below) to learn, share, and contribute to the development of the surveillance technologies policy.
We will begin with a soft kickstart event on March 2nd, where our team will share concepts needed to understand how policies are developed in the City of Portland and the roadmap for developing the draft surveillance technologies policy.
This policy will provide guidelines and structure to the use and procurement of surveillance technologies, including implementing privacy impact assessments and effective public participation in governance and oversight.
These events intend to create public space for discussion and collaboration to develop the City’s surveillance technologies policy. Our team wants to make sure that different voices, particularly those most impacted, are included and puts our community values and goals first.
The development of the surveillance technologies policy is divided in three modules:
Surveillance technologies inventory, reporting, and oversight
Governance and community involvement
Procurement of surveillance technology and privacy services.
Each module will be open to a public space for discussion and analysis. These events will be streamed and recorded.
A policy group will take these discussions, analyze best practices, and take policy guidelines, and start drafting the portion of the policy for that specific module. This policy group is open to all those who want to participate, but registration for attendance is required.
This approach is something new that our team is trying. We hope you will be able to tolerate delays, problems, or issues with the process. It is also an invitation to make the process itself better.
All the events will start on Wednesdays at 5:30 and last 2 hours. Note that the event on March 2 is one hour long and starts at 6 PM. Regular event meetings may extend beyond 7:30, but we will have a hard stop at 8:30 PM.
Full guidelines and description of the participatory policy making roadmap, goals, and coming events can be downloaded in this link.
Surveillance Technologies policy development roadmap
| Event title | Date | Description | event link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surveillance Technologies Policy 101 event * | March 2, 2022 | This event will introduce the plan for the participatory policy making roadmap. This is only a one-hour long event. | event link |
| First policy group meeting * | March 16, 2022 | Policy module I: Surveillance technologies inventory and transparency | event link |
| Policy workshop | March 30, 2022 | Workshop of module I | event link |
| Second policy group meeting * | April 13, 2022 | Policy module II: Community involvement, governance, and oversight. | event link |
| Policy workshop | April 27, 2022 | Workshop of module II | event link |
| Third policy group meeting * | May 11, 2022 | Policy module III: Privacy risk assessments and procurement of technology. | event link |
| Policy workshop | (New date) June 8, 2022 | Workshop of module III | event link |
| Draft release event | TBD | Draft release event and presentation. | Coming soon! |
How to join
Date: as described above
Time: 5:30 PM (Attendees will be able to enter the virtual meeting space 5 minutes before the hour)
Event duration: 2 hours
Platform: Zoom (This is the preferred platform for the City of Portland)
Zoom meeting information: Check event pages for the zoom link.
Attendees will be placed in a virtual waiting room and, by joining, agreed to the guidelines defined for these events. Main meeting space will be open 5 minutes before the starting time.
About the event
Event coordinator: Hector Dominguez
Contact: hector.dominguez@portlandoregon.gov
Secondary contact: smartcitypdx@portlandoregon.gov
City provides: Interpretation service upon request
About Smart City PDX
Smart City PDX is a program of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability of the City of Portland and its mission includes to use data and technology responsibly to support a healthy, safe, more affordable and prosperous Portland for everyone.
About the Office of Equity and Human Rights
The Office of Equity and Human Rights is a City of Portland agency that promotes equity and reduction of disparities within City government; it also works with community partners to promote equity and inclusion within Portland and throughout the region, producing measurable improvements and disparity reductions.
About Cascadia Partners
Cascadia Partners is a diverse team of mission-driven public engagement and urban planning specialists who facilitate meaningful and responsive planning and policy making processes using their technical expertise alongside input learned from communities who are most impacted.
Services provided
Please let us know if you need special accommodations, ASL or interpretation services if possible two weeks in advance of each event. Email us at smartcitypdx@portlandoregon.gov about any accommodations needed or please fill out the RSVP form in the link below.
RSVP
This is optional but will help us prepare facilitation needs for the discussion portion. To RSVP, please fill out this form https://arcg.is/0TOLzr
General comments and feedback
You can send us your comments and feedback via email to smartcitypdx@portlandoregon.gov or filling this form.