Surveillance Technologies Policy

Helps us building the City of Portland’s surveillance technologies inventory. Learn about this process and how you can submit your input via an online survey. Participation of all Portlanders and friends of Portland is important to assure responsible use of technology.

The City of Portland Surveillance technologies Policy has been submitted to the City revision process. You can download the proposed policy and additional materials in this blog post.

This is a report that includes main public feedback and comments, as of May 10, 2022, shared through public events organized as part of the surveillance technologies policy development.

This is the public invitation for the participatory policy making process that the City of Portland’s Smart City PDX program and the Office of Equity and Human Rights are organizing. The goal of these events is the development of a draft of the City’s surveillance technologies policy.

Smart City PDX submits comments to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on use of biometric information in government.

The Smart City PDX team and the Office of Equity and Human Rights coordinated a Portland City Council work session on surveillance technologies. The work session included how the cities of Seattle and Oakland manage surveillance technologies. Community members shared some impacts and recommendations on how the City can protect residents’ and visitors’ digital rights.

A co-design event organized last December 13, 2021 tried to be a space for open discussion and collaboration to understand how surveillance technologies impact Portlanders. This post is a general summary of the findings and comments. Detailed analysis and raw comments are also accessible to download.